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 ) 1928- He describes in detail the future furniture for their new flat to his mother and aunt, and lets them know: his son Béla passed the written part of his Matura. 1 June - He gets nominated (by decree No. 41741/1928-III of the Ministry of Religion and Public Education) full partner of the committee examining piano teachers, for the period between 1 May 1928 and 30 April 1933. 4 June - The Bartoks move from 4 Szilágyi Dezső Square to 10 Kavics Street. “We got through the move ... There was no trouble, except for 2 of the 58 cases getting somewhat dismantled, but nothing got dropped even from those ... The other event of the day is that Béla passed his Matura excellently ... The air here is just like in a village, calves are bleating, crickets chirring ... How great that at long last we are free of that loathsome flat” - he writes his mother. Expenses of the move amounted to 2,225 pengős. 12 June - He arranges the police registration, and writes a letter to the widowed Mrs Dr. Béla Dedinszky, the new tenant of the flat at Szilágyi Dezső Square about its release. 14 June - He is sunbathing happily in the garden of the new flat. 21 June - He details the expenses of the move in a longish letter to his mother in two parts: direct expenses 830 pengős, accessory expenses (new acquisitions) 1,395 pengős. For comparison he asks for the expenses of the 1907 move that his mother had noted at the time. 22 June - He hands over the last third of the Slovakian folk song collection to the representative of Matica Slovenská for 3,150 Czech crowns. 23 June - Letter to ITHMA. 28 June - Letter to Universal Edition. 30 June - Károly Ziegler visits the Bartoks with his wife (Márta Ziegler) and their little son when passing through Budapest. Bartok plays the piano for them. 2 July - He takes a walk in the Zoo with his family. 281
