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

After World War I (1920–1921)

AFTER WORLD WAR I (1 920-1 921)

1920

mother to Mrs Bartok in Rákoskeresztúr:

“

I do my best to put together a possibly lighter programme with the utmost diligence and effort, out of mere compassion for the poor Pozsony

people

” - writes Bartok. - In the afternoon he visits concert organiser Dr. Herzfeld with his mother, and plays the Wooden.

10 April

- He writes his wife with great joy that the flat offered by Lukács,

even though cramped, has to be accepted, and she should try to organise the move as soon as possible. - The Brno appearance, planned after the Pozsony

concert,

is cancelled, so he can get home earlier. - In the meantime he is already writing the fourth article for the Musical Courier, furthermore he is also negotiating with Matica Slovenská,

he

is invited to Turócszentmárton

for

July. (In the end this trip failed to come about, due to lack of an entry permission.)

16 April

- Composers evening in the great hall of the City Vigadó

in

Pozsony. The

programme is: Allegro barbaro,

Rumanian

Dance No. 1, 9 pieces of the series For Children, numbers 6 to 15 from 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Suite Op. 14, Sonatina, Bagatells Nos. 10 and 14, beside the version for two pianos of Rhapsody Op. 1 with the participation of Sándor Albrecht.

20 April

- From Pozsony

he

travels home to Budapest.

1 May

- His leave of 2x4 months expiring, he presents himself at the Music Academy. His leave gets extended until the end of the school year, but the Ministry of Religion and Public Education denies him permission for further work at the Ethnographic Department of the Hungarian National Museum (by decree No. 44822/III/

1920).

In connection with his Berlin stay, his essay written in 1914 entitled The Musical Dialect of the Romanian people ofHunyad gets published in Leipzig.

19 May

- In the mood of the lost war, preceding the conclusion of the peace treaty, Dr. Elemér

Sereghy

writes an article of assail in the Nemzeti

Újság (National

News), asserting that the publication is favouring the

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