Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)

Settling In Budapest. Systematic Collection of Folk Songs (1907–1913)

1913

CHRONICLES OF BÉLA

BARTOK'S

LIFE

to János

Bu§i|ia

in Belényes.

Then

being relieved of this work, during the Christmas holidays he sets out toward a new territory, Hunyad county.

Between 21 and 28 December he makes 82 recordings, on the 26th he is collecting in Paucsinesd.

28 December - From Várhely

(Hunyad

county) he writes his wife in Budapest (who spends the holidays at her parents’) that he is using the hundredth cylinder already. “The number of folk songs here is incredible.” The same day he even writes her a postcard: he has used up 110 cylinders already, and, save for his nights rest, he is collecting ceaselessly.

During December he collects in Hunyad county, in the communities of Lelesz, Óhábasibisel, Nuksora,

Paucsinesd, Malomvíz,

Feresd, Gyalár, Várhely, and

Cserbel.

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