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 )

1926

30 July

- They leave Vicenza for Trieste where Bartok gets ill, so they return home in all haste.

9 August

- He writes his mother in Pozsony

already

from Budapest. - Upon request of conductor Vilmos Komor

he

agrees in a letter to the performance of his piece Village Scenes. And he returns the Barcelona draft contract - alluding to his letter of 26 July - to Antal Fleischer.

21 August - He is still working in Budapest.

At the end of August, at latest on the 29th he leaves for Szöllős

Puszta.

Around 5 September he returns to Budapest with his family.

12 September

- He starts preparations for the autumn concert season. He writes István

László Németh in

Pozsony

that

he requests only a moderate fee for the concert planned for November - considering that its a Hungarian society. However, he would like to complement his programme with piano pieces by Kodály,

he

had great success with these recently also in Transylvania.

18 September

- From Budapest he informs János

Busitia

in a long letter about events of the past year, writing about concerts, the completion of the volume of the kolindas, and the summer publication of Rumanian Folk Dances transcribed for Violin and Piano by Zoltán

Székely.

21 September

- He writes István

László Németh in

Pozsony

that

the date 7 November is appropriate for his Pozsony

appearance

(later on this got modified to 21 November), by the way they can meet up in Pozsony

at

the beginning of October.

25 and

30 September - He writes a letter to Universal Edition. - On the 30th he notifies music critic Sándor

Jemnitz

that he has arranged that the Rózsavölgyis

’ hand

out a complimentary copy of his book. (Probably referring to The Hungarian Folk Song.)

2 October

- He writes violinist József

Szigeti that

his transcriptions are well done, but he would like minor changes. - At the same time he suggests a programme for their evening of sonatas planned for 10 April.

3 October

- He travels to Pozsony

for

a few days.

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