Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1926 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE Folk Dances. Due to the audience s great enthusiasm he gives as many as 5 encores. 21 April - Before leaving Kassa, he writes his mother, then in the afternoon he travels to Eperjes (Sáros county). 22 April - Here he gives a concert with the same programme as on the previous day, and writes a greeting card to his sister in Szöllős Puszta. 26 April - From Budapest he writes the Society of New Music in Cologne that he is unable to meet their invitation for the Cologne premiere of The Miraculous Mandarin. (By the way, the premiere got postponed to end of November.) The flat at Szilágyi Dezső Square is very problematic: two rooms are quite dark, and there is constant noise in the building. Due to the difficult housing situation, the change requires great financial sacrifice. 29 April - Bartok entrusts a house agent with the matter (which eventually reached conclusion more than 2 years later, in June 1928). By the end of April the manuscript of the volume of Romanian kolindas is ready for print. On the 29th Bartok - with great satisfaction - hands in one copy for the Romanian edition at the Romanian Embassy of Budapest. He sends the other copy, on which the English edition will be based, to Oxford University Press in London on 1 May. 2 May - He gives his mother an account of the kolinda manuscript and of the Romanians having given him 110 dollars for it, which he was unable to redeem as yet because the bank didn’t trust the Romanian cheque. In the afternoon he goes on a long walk with his family in the Buda Castle district. In the meantime his mother got back her papers from Prague; the final decision set her pension at 8,114 Czech crowns. So the case of six years came to a legally valid end, to Bartoks great satisfaction. 6 May - He writes Briloiu in Bucharest that he handed over the kolindas, and he is inquiring about their further fate. He asks Briloiu to make inquiries with Home Secretary Octavian Goga - whom Bartok has 252
