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 )

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then in the evening he gives a concert at the Teatro Filodrammatico with an identical programme of 7 March.

10 March

- He leaves Cremona for Florence where he stays at Grande Albergo Baglioni.

12 March

- He moves to the Hotel Rebecchino.

13 March

- Concert in Florence, in the White Hall of Palazzo Pitti, his programme being identical to the previous ones. - He writes his mother: “I spent three beautiful days here, there was only one nuisance that I was also obliged to play the piano”.

14 March

- From Florence he returns to Budapest.

15 March

- Igor Stravinsky gives a concert in Budapest which Mrs Bartok b. Ditta Pásztory

and

Mrs Károly

Ziegler

attend, probably also joined by Bartok.

17 March - Kodálys

composers

evening. According to Mrs Bartoks account “it was wonderfully beautiful... I dare say that Béla

is

perhaps more pleased when Zoltán

is

being celebrated than when he himself”.

24 March - At the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy) he plays Dirges Nos. 3 and 4 and five pieces of the series For Children as fourth number of the concert given by the Choir of the Residential Capital.

28 March - He writes a letter to the society of American composers Leage of Composers in New York.

8 April - At his second performance at Radio Budapest, he plays the transcription of The Miraculous Mandarin for four hands with György

Kosa.

20 April - The programme of his next concert in Kassa is: Beethovens Sonata in E flat major Op. 31, 3 sonatas by Scarlatti, Chopins Nocturne in C sharp minor, Debussy’s Pour

le piano,

and of his own compositions Nos. 6 to 15 of 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Dirge No.

1, Allegro barbaro,

Sonatina,

Evening in Transylvania, Bear Dance, A Bit Tipsy, and under the name of “Slavonian” dances maybe Rumanian

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