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 )

1927

mother s and aunt s attention to the English summer time, in case they managed to listen to his performance at the Radio on 9 October. (By the way, they already switched back to winter time by then.)

8 October

- He arrives in London in the evening. He stays at Hotel Vernon Court.

9 October

- Radio concert in London.

10 October

- Another radio concert: England premiere of Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Edward Clark, with one single rehearsal. Fee for the two London concerts was 55 guineas (57 and a half pounds).

11 October

- He leaves London for Dessau in the morning.

12 October

- Piano evening in Dessau, organised by the Circle of Friends of “Bauhaus”. Programme: Kodály

s

Epitaph and Piano Music, of his own works Elegy No. 2, 3 Burlesques, Sonata, 9 Small Piano Pieces, 1st series of Kolindas, Suite, and Allegro barbaro.

15 October

- Already in Prague, he writes his mother and aunt that everything has gone smoothly so far, its just that orchestras have difficulties with the piano concerto everywhere. - He asks Universal Edition in a letter to send the material of the Piano Concerto to Warsaw.

16 October

- Performance of Piano Concerto No. 1 at Smetana Hall of Prague. The Czech Philharmonics are conducted by István

Strasser.

17 October

- Leaving Prague he arrives in Pozsony

in

the afternoon.

18 October

- From Pozsony

he

writes Universal Edition.

19 October

- From Pozsony

he

arrives in Warsaw in the evening. He stays at Hotel Bristol.

21 October

- Warsaw performance of Piano Concerto No. 1 in the evening, following an orchestral rehearsal of five hours, conducted by Gregorz Fitelberg. The traditional Polish-Hungarian friendship “worked excellently”.

22 October

- From Warsaw he writes his mother and aunt in Pozsony

and

his sister in Szöllős

Puszta before

leaving for home.

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