Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
At The Academy of Sciences. Great Compositions (1934–1938)
1935 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE 24 January - He buys his train ticket for the route Budapest-Passau- Elten-Rotterdam. 25 January - He leaves for Holland (his postal address is: Santpoort Station). 29 January - Bartok evening at the Small Hall of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the participation of Bartok, Zoltán Székely and singer Berthe Seroen. Programme: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 and 9 numbers of 20 JJungarian Folk Songs. 30 January - Renewal of The Wooden Prince at the Budapest Opera House conducted by János Ferencsik with Kodálys Transylvanian Spinning Room in the second half of the programme. Further performances during this season: 2, 8, 14 February, 26 March, 7 June. 31 January - Radio concert in Hilversum for a fee of 200 guilders. His programme is: pieces Nos. 6 to 15 of 15 JJungarian Peasant Songs, Allegro barbaro, Evening in Transylvania, Bear Dance, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. - He writes Universal Edition from Rotterdam. During January his workdays at the Academy are: the 3rd, 4th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 22nd. 2 February - He plays at Doelen Hall of Rotterdam at the concert of the Rotterdam Philharmonics: his Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 with Zoltán Székely and his Piano Concerto No. 2 with Eduard Flipse conducting. According to the programme, the third Bartok number of the orchestra is “Hungarian Songs and Dances” (probably JJungarian Peasant Songs, transcription of 9 pieces from 15 JJungarian Peasant Songs). (Flipse didn’t return the material of the performance - on lease from its proprietor, the Rózsavölgyi firm - even after multiple urges; so Bartok took him to task in an indignant letter at the beginning of March.) - Bartok buys a reserved seat ticket for the route Rotterdam-Kranenburg (Nordrhein-Westphalia), then leaves for Switzerland. 4 February - From Basel he writes a letter to Mr and Mrs Zoltán Székely. 372
