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 12 and 22 November - He writes Philaret Kolessa in Lemberg regarding Ukrainian folk song collections and dictionaries. 26 November - Letter sent to Universal Edition. 27 November - He thanks Philaret Kolessa for the sent folk song publications. 29 November - He buys his train ticket for the route Budapest-Zurich. 30 November - He informs Werner Reinhart about the time of his arrival in Winterthur. - He receives letter of thanks No. 462/1935 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for having sent them the volume of kolindas. 1 December - Wedding of Béla Bartok Jnr and Judith Simay. Afterwards Bartok attends the family gathering at the Simay family ’s, and in the evening he visits his mother and aunt. His son Béla moves into his new flat at 90 Szondy Street. 2 December - Bartok gives his lecture at Radio Budapest, entitled Why and How We Should Collect Folk Music?, called off in September. 3 December - Before leaving Budapest he writes musicologist Adolf Chybinski in Lemberg, among other things about having been attacked in Poland because of an earlier article of his on Chopin - according to which Chopin hadn’t known real Polish peasant music -, although his recent researches also prove that he had been right. Regarding the Slovakian collection having being dragged on for years he writes: “Matica Slovenska is a disorderly, confused and contractbreacher set!” - In the evening he leaves for Vienna and spends the night there. 4 December - He proceeds towards Zurich on 3rd Class. Aboard the train he writes 10 letters in four languages, among which from Innsbruck to his mother and aunt in Budapest and to Sándor Albrecht in Pozsony about making further appearances abroad that season only in Holland and England. (He had one more concert in Temesvár in the spring. He also got an invitation to the Soviet Union with a very high fee, but 382
