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

Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)

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CHRONICLES OF BÉLA

BARTOK'S

LIFE

6 July

- They arrive in Como (Lombardia).

7 July

- From Como they write a postcard to the widowed Mrs Béla

Bartok

in Pozsony,

and

to Mrs Emil

Tóth, and

Márta

Ziegler

vacationing at their place, in Szöllős

Puszta.

Due to a minor sickness, they stay in Como longer than planned.

12 July

- On lake Como they take a boat to Colico

(Lombardia),

from where they write again to Mrs Emil

Tóth in

Szöllős

Puszta and

to the widowed Mrs Béla

Bartok

in Pozsony,

then

in the evening they arrive to Chiesa (Provincia

di

Sandrio). They stay at Albergo

Amilcar.

14 July

- From here Bartok writes D. Kiriac in Bucharest.

15 July

- They write the widowed Mrs Béla

Bartok

about their first oneday excursion to the lake Palio, and on the 21st and on the 27th once again to Mrs Bartok and Mrs Emil

Tóth.

29 July

- They leave Chiesa, and travel home according to their plan via Brescia, Verona, and Vicenza.

3 August

- They arrive in Budapest.

4 August

- They proceed to Szöllős

Puszta, where

they stay

until about 21 August, then return to Budapest with their son Péter.

16 September

- Bartok writes a letter to Wiener Philharmonischer

Verlag in Vienna.

20 September

- The János

Arany Society

of Nagykőrös

elects

him honorary member.

25 September

- In Pozsony

he

plays Rhapsody, Vilmos Komor

conducting.

27 September

- Márta

Ziegler

marries her relative, the engineer Károly

Ziegler, and moves to Szekszárd.

28 September

- Béla

Bartok

Jnr moves back to Szilágyi

Dezső Square

to his fathers. - Bartok informs Mrs Fischer b. Stefánia

Szalay

that the German edition of The Hungarian Folk Song got published, furthermore that his appearance in Nagyvárad

is

uncertain that season. (In the end it got cancelled.)

Bartoks second concert tour in Holland takes place in October.

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