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

Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)

1923

CHRONICLES OF BÉLA

BARTOK'S

LIFE

11 October - From the Pozsony

Ministry

of Culture he receives permit No. 11948/23 for concert organising on Slovakian territory.

17 October - He agrees with the Rózsavölgyi

and

Co. firm about the Hungarian edition of his fundamental work entitled A

magyar népdal (The Hungarian Folk Song).

24 October - He travels to Vienna with Imre Waldbauer

for

the Week of Modern Music. At their concert in the Mittlerer

Konzerthaus-Saal they play Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 (the planned performance of Sonata No. 1 was cancelled) and Bloch’s Sonata for Violin and Piano. Furthermore Bartok accompanies Dorothy Moulton who sings 2 songs by Kodály,

3

by de Falla and 2 by Pizzetti (Braust

der traurige Wald, Der Frühling; Cancion, Nana, Polo; I Pastori, San Basilio).

25 October

- From

Vienna

he

travels home.

29 October

- Representative

of Matica Slovenská

Viliam

Figus-Bystrÿ

(Vilmos Figusch) visits Bartok and receives the 248 phonograph cylinders containing Bartoks Slovakian folk song collection complete with cover plates, paying 11,615 Czech crowns.

30 October - Piano evening in Pécs,

at

Hotel Pannonia. His programme is: 3 sonatas by Scarlatti, Beethovens Sonata in F

major

Op. 10, Debussy’s Pour le piano,

4 numbers from Kodály

’s Piano

Music, then of his own works Nos. 6 to 15 from 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, A Bit Tipsy, Evening in Transylvania, Bear Dance, Allegro barbaro,

Sonatina,

Dirge No. 1, Rumanian Folk Dances, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. (In the printed programme the Rumanian “Folk” Dance was set “Old”)

4 November - At the matinee of the Bluebird at the Capital’s Vigadó

of

Budapest he plays Elegy No. 2, Allegro barbaro,

Ballad,

and Burlesque No. 3. Beside Bartok Oszkár

Kálmán, Mária Németh, Mária Basilides, György Kosa, and

performers of prose also appear. Mária

Basilides

sings two Ady Songs by Bartok (Three Autumn Teardrops, Cannot Go To You) among other things, accompanied on piano by György

Kosa.

6 November - Bartok evening at the Music Academy. Programme:

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