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

15 May

- He gets rashes on his face again.

16 May

- He gets elected corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with a rate of votes 24:6.

17 May

- He gets notified of this by Secretary-General Jenő

Baloghs

letter No. 806/1935.

18 May

- The international chamber music society La

Sirène requests

that he accept the role of Honorary President.

19 May

- He thanks Jenő

Balogh

for his letter and for having been elected corresponding member.

20 May

- In a letter he writes Mr and Mrs Zoltán

Székely about

having been elected corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences.

21 May

- He brings Ernő

Dohnányi s

two congratulatory letters, that he has written as director and as private individual on the occasion of his election, to his mother and aunt s.

23 May

- After another visit with his mother and aunt he gets confined to bed between 25 and 30 May with feverish angina.

31 May

- He writes his son Béla

about

his illness on a postcard addressed to Nógrádverőce,

where

the young man is leading measuring practices in capacity of Professor s Assistant at the University of Polytechnic.

During May his workdays at the Academy of Sciences are: the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd.

2 June

- He writes a letter to Milos Ruppeldt regarding Matica Slovenská.

6 June

- In the course of the “Festive Weeks of June” Jenő

Ormándy conducts Transylvanian Dances. Bartok visits his mother instead of attending the performance.

10 June

- He writes Universal Edition before leaving Budapest for Szöllős

Puszta.

11 June

- There they are celebrating his little sister Elzas 50th birthday.

16 June

- In Budapest Frigyes

Friedl

conducts Hungarian Pictures at a “National Concert”.

Finally the German edition of the kolinda collection is published.

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