Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
At The Academy of Sciences. Great Compositions (1934–1938)
1938 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE festivities. (This didn’t come true.) - In the course of a Bartok evening he plays from Microcosmos, and accompanies the singing of Betty van den Bosch who performs three of his Ady Songs. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 is played by Andries Roodenburg and Géza Frid. 26 January - From Amsterdam he writes his mother and aunt and his wife about his vexation concerning the concerts in Holland, then in Den Hague he gives a lecture entitled Folk Music of Eastern Europe. 27 January - He leaves Amsterdam for Luxembourg. 28 January - From Luxembourg he writes his mother and aunt, and Constantin Briloiu in Bucharest. 29 January - In Luxembourg he finishes his letter to Mrs Müller-Widmann, started in London. In this he writes annoyed: "... As soon as I got back to Amsterdam I learned that the Rotterdam concert (of 24 Jan.) was cancelled due to lack of interest. ...one cannot be expected to acknowledge a cancellation 2 days before a concert!”. - He also writes Universal Edition and his son Béla “ from this almost smallest Europ. country where the army’ consists of 150 men, and where - because it is futile anyway - there is no armament”. - In the evening at the Radio he plays Piano Concerto No. 2. He is equally satisfied with the orchestra and the conductor. 30 January - He leaves Luxembourg for Brussels. He stays at Hotel Cosmopolite. In the evening he plays The Nights Music, Suite Op. 14, and Preludio-AirUngherese, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 with Paul Collaer, and accompanies singer Ms Martin-Metten in 8 numbers of 20 Hungarian Folk Songs at the Radio. Then he leaves for home - via Germany against his wishes. 31 January - On his way he gives an account of his concerts to Sándor Albrecht, mentioning how glad he is not to have gone to Trencsénteplic the previous year, seen that he didn’t get the performing permit for Pozsony. - In his letter to Tokyo he authorizes Wilhelmine Creel to translate and publish anywhere the few Bartok articles sent over. 418
