Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1930 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE against fire and burglary. - In the meantime the Csorba sculpture is completed; Bartok shows it to his mother who receives it with strong criticism. 23 June - He leaves Budapest on vacation, on the 25th he writes his wife from Vienna. 26 June - Still in Vienna, he writes his mother and aunt that he has been arranging only official matters so far at Universal. At noon he proceeds towards France. 27 June - He breaks his journey in the Swiss Sion (Valais). 28 June - From here he writes his mother, aunt and wife, then takes a bus to Arolia (via Haudères) where he takes up lodgings at Hotel de Pigne for 8 francs a day. 30 June - He takes an excursion to the Mont Dolin; he finds an early edelweiss on its sloping meadow. 1 July - He writes his mother that weather is “passable”, he might stay there for 2 weeks. 2 July - He writes Constantin Brloiu in Bucharest regarding the publication of the volume of kolindas, and asks: “would you, please, control carefully the enclosed text of the kolinda that I will put music to” (the kolinda text that will serve as a basis for Cantata profana). 3 July - He takes a whole-day excursion to the Plan Bertol. 4 July - He writes his son Béla in Szekszárd that he will stay in Arolia until about the 20th, then prepares for a journey of one week and finally on the 28th arrival in Abbazia, and expects his wife and both of his sons there. He is satisfied with the weather, but mentions that one day it was raining “which resulted in 3 sheets of orchestral score” (probably of Cantata profana). 5 July - Another great excursion. 6 July - He sends his mother the edelweiss picked on the 30th. 7 July - He takes an excursion on the edge of a boulder-wall to the Torgnon glacier. 310
