Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1925 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE Amsterdam concerts and his further plans, which were partly modified later on, as usual. 3 November - In Debrecen, at the concert of the Budapest Philharmonic Society he plays Rhapsody, conducted by Vilmos Komor. His fee is 2,700,000 crowns. - He writes a joint greeting card with his nephew (Béla Tóth) studying in Debrecen, to his sister in Szöllős Puszta, signed “ Béla and Béla ”. 10 November - The planned evening of sonatas with Zoltán Székely is cancelled due to his illness. - The Swiss premiere of Suite No. 2 is taking place on this day in Zurich, conducted by Volkmar Andreae. 15 November - He is already participating at the Budapest concert of the Melles-Zsámboki String Quartet, in the performance of Mozarts Trio in E major. His fee is 2,000,000 crowns. - In his letter written to Ernő Dohnányi (then staying in the United States) in favour of making Zoltán Székely perform, he mentions how tired he gets giving concerts and preparing for them; he wants to renounce this activity - he already called off his American tour. (Yet he gave concerts there two years later.) 19 November - The Prague Philharmonics perform Dance Suite in Budapest, but Bartok - due to his bad experiences in Prague - probably doesn’t attend the concert. 24 November - The evening of sonatas with Zoltán Székely postponed from 10 November is held at the Capital’s Vigadó. Programme: sonatas B minor by Bach, Bartok’s No. 1, and Beethoven’s C minor (mistakenly E minor in the programme). 1 December - He writes Arthur E. Hull in London regarding the German edition of Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians. 5 December - The Ministry of Religion and Public Education puts him in group B of the 5th class of state salaries by its decree No. 94001/1925-III. (In the course of reorganisation of finances they limited the appointed number of personnel in individual payment classes. Those exceeding 246
