Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
At The Academy of Sciences. Great Compositions (1934–1938)
1936 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE 27 April - He brings the reviews of the concert on the 22nd to his mother, and writes a letter to Universal Edition. His connections with Romanian official and other circles get gradually aggravated. Owing to this he hasn’t had concerts in Romania in the last two years. 2 May - Yet he is invited for a single appearance one last time: he gives an evening of sonatas with Ede Zathureczky at City Theatre of Temesvár. They play Mozarts Sonata in A major, Kreutzer Sonata, one of Bartoks Violin Rhapsodies, and Gertlers transcription of Sonatina. Bartoks solo programme is: Rondo No. 1, Evening in Transylvania, Bear Dance, Allegro barbaro, and some numbers from 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs. - He stays at Hotel Central. 3 May - He leaves Temesvár for Budapest. - He would not set foot in Transylvania or Romania ever again. 10 May - He gets elected honorary president of the National League of Hungarian Singing Associations under No. 667/1936. 11 May - In the hall of the Tisza College of Kecskemét, concert of the City Choral Society conducted by Zoltán Vásárhelyi, its programme also containing the premiere of 3 numbers of Hungarian Folk Songs for mixed choir written in 1930 and Kodály ’ s ballad Anna Molnár. Bartok plays Suite, Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, and Allegro barbaro, then Ede Zathureczky joins him in Rhapsody No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata and some pieces of For Children in Tivadar Országh ’s transcription entitled Hungarian Folk Songs. 14 May - In Budapest the Kolisch Quartet play String Quartet No. 5. Bartok presumably attended the concert. 16 May - In the Budapest office of the Rózsavölgyi and Co. firm he is negotiating the termination of the contract of 27 December 1928 concerning mechanical rights. 18 May - In Vienna, in the afternoon he gives a radio lecture entitled Hungarian Folk Music. - In the evening the Austro-Hungarian 390
