Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
At The Academy of Sciences. Great Compositions (1934–1938)
1934 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE commemoration” (birthday greetings) to the Erzsébet Szilágyi Grammar School, then in the evening he leaves for Stockholm, on his only Swedish concert tour. 16 April - He arrives in Stockholm. 17 April - He gives a lecture in German, entitled Impact of Peasant Music on Recent Art Music. 18 April - At Konserthusets stora sal of Sockholm he plays Piano Concerto No. 2 conducted by Václav Talich. 19 April - Radio concert in Stockholm. - He writes his sister and Ernő Südy. To Sándor Albrecht he complains that the Ballós are making themselves scarce again, furthermore he promises to seek out the requested manuscript of Piano Quintet. 20 April - He takes a boat at Trälleborg and, passing through Berlin, arrives in Budapest in the evening of 21 April. Hungarian Radio intends to reduce Bartoks usual fee with reference to a decrease in the number of subscribers, owing to the bad economic situation. Bartok has his doubts but doesn’t want to inquire personally. 23 April - So he asks his mother to get information about the true situation through his sister, in the form of an editorial answer. At the same time he brings the Stockholm reviews to his mother. 24 April - He gives 2 private lessons. 25 April - Ceremonial concert at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy) for the benefit of the Academy’s Relief Society. Bartok plays two sonatas with Ede Zathureczky, Mozart’s B flat major and Beethoven’s A major (Kreutzer). 28 April - He writes pianist Walter Frey in Zurich that he cannot support his appearance in Hungary because his own relations with Hungarian musical circles and leading personalities are bad or cold. - He also writes Universal Edition. 29 April - In the Fodor Music School he listens to their Bartok ceremony. 364
