Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)

Settling In Budapest. Systematic Collection of Folk Songs (1907–1913)

SETTLING IN BUDAPEST. SYSTEMATIC

COLLECTION OF FOLK SONGS ( 1 907-1 91 3)

1910

Szamosújvár (Szolnok-Doboka

county).

17 October

- From there he writes a postcard to Etelka

M.

Freund in Budapest and also to his mother: “This excursion ended with the obligatory breaking down of the phonograph again. ... results are sufficient”. - The Ethnographic Museum lends him a phonograph for a subsequent trip. - He returns to Kolozsvár.

18 October

- Again in Budapest.

23 and

25 October - He is rehearsing Brahms’ Trio Op. 8 in B major with Imre Waldbauer

and

Jenő

Kerpely.

30 October - Performance of the Brahms trio at the concert of the Waldbauer-Kerpely

String Quartet at the Royal Hall. - Afterwards he goes on his usual collecting around All Saints’ Day.

4 November

- He announces a competition for folk horn and bagpipes (to be held on 13 November in Ipolyság)

by

No. 130/1910 of the circular of the Hont

county

Archives.

5 and

6 November - Bartok is collecting in the Csallóköz

region,

in Nagymegyer (Komárom

county).

10 November

- In Szeged at Hotel Tisza trio evening with Imre Waldbauer

and Jenő

Kerpely,

with huge publicity yet without a full house. They perform trios D major by Beethoven and B major by Brahms, besides Bartok plays Evening in Transylvania and Rumanian Dance No. 1. - He sends a postcard to his sister and also to his mother, and

on 11 November to Etelka

M.

Freund, all three signed by Waldbauer

and

Kerpely.

13 November

- Competition of folk horn and bagpipes in Ipolyság

(Hont county), to Bartok’s great joy. He writes a postcard to Etelka

M.

Freund.

16 November

- He is in Nagymegyer again, from there he travels to Komárom.

24 November

- He is probably in Vienna, but this is testified only by a train ticket.

1 December - From Budapest he writes a letter to Dimitrie Kiriac in

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