Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
At The Academy of Sciences. Great Compositions (1934–1938)
AT THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. GREAT C O M P O S I T I O N S ( 1 934-1 938) 1935 13 December - Bartok plays at the City Theatre Beethovens Piano Concerto in C major conducted by Sergio Failoni. 20 December - Letter to Walter Schulthess. Irma Voit is getting ill, so Bartoks visits at his mother and aunts become even more frequent. He is there also on the 23rd (with his son Béla), on the 24th (for Christmas, with his son Péter), on the 27th, 29th and 30th. In the meanwhile he goes regularly to the Academy of Sciences in spite of Christmas vacation. Hz's December workdays are: the 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th, 14th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 27th, 28th, 29th. 1935 The very beginning of January - Bartok gets a visit from English conductor Edward Clark. 10 January - Sitting on a bus, he writes a letter in pencil to Zoltán Székely, sending him the programme for the planned radio concert in Hilversum (North Holland Province, Gooi County) on 31 January. 12 January - He has a meeting with the management of the Opera House. Károly Voit, his relative living in Pozsony has been receiving and forwarding to Sándor Albrecht Bartoks mothers pension. Now the old Károly Voit died. 16 January - In a letter in German to the Zoltán Székelys he writes that they would already set out around 4 p.m. on the 25th (Friday); they would have to change trains in Utrecht around 10 p.m. on the 26th and would arrive in Amsterdam at about 11 p.m. 19 January - Bartok asks Sándor Albrecht to receive the pension directly from now on. - He writes Universal Edition regarding the composer s rights of The Wooden Prince. 22 January - In a letter in German to the Zoltán Székelys he writes again that they would arrive in Amsterdam on 26 January at 10 p.m. 371
