Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
GREAT CONCERT TOURS ON TWO CONTINENTS (1 922-1 931 ) 1922 19 July - He writes a postcard to Ödön Hendel in Újpest, whom he is expecting on a visit on 24 July. At the beginning of August Mr and Mrs Bartok travelled to Vienna, but Mrs Bartoks brother-in-law Ede Kankovszky having died in a duel, she returns home. 7 August - In Salzburg Bartok plays Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 with violinist Mary Dickerson Auner. “The sonata went badly” - he writes still from Salzburg on 11 August to his son Béla in Szöllős Puszta. The concert was attended by many important personages: Dent, Poulenc, Honegger, Saerchinger, Rudolf Ganz, etc. (The International Society of New Music was founded then.) Afterwards Bartok leaves for home. 12 August - He arrives in Budapest. He works on Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2. 20 August - From Budapest he writes a postcard to his mother in Pozsony and a letter to M. Calvocoressi in London. To Calvocoressi he writes that the case of the songs (probably The Hungarian Folk Song) has already been settled long ago. They played Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 badly in Salzburg as well, yet not as scandalously as in Frankfurt. He will try to work through it with Waldbauer and the young Székely, too, in the hope that they will play it decently. In England he would prefer to play pieces for the violin and piano with Jelly Arányi. - Bartoks former pupil Mrs Renner b. Teréz Mull writes to Pozsony from China that there she played Bartok pieces on a social occasion and had great success with them. 21 August - Bartok reports to his wife staying in Marosvásárhely that he manages the household as best he can, and that he had two English visitors whom he showed around Budapest. The first fragment of Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 is ready, but “there is little progress in copying the Tót songs ”. 23 August - He sends his belated good wishes to his son Béla in Szöllős Puszta. He also writes about going every other day to the József 213
