Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
GREAT CONCERT TOURS ON TWO CONTINENTS (1 922-1 931 ) 1923 11 December - Bartok rehearses in his flat, first his Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 with Imre Waldbauer, later the 8 Hungarian Folk Songs with Izabella Nagy. 20 December - These two works are performed at the Bartok evening at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy), it is the Budapest premiere of Sonata for Violin and Piano; of the Hungarian folk songs 5 are on the programme. Furthermore Bartok plays Elegy No. 2, Suite, Sonatina, Dirge No. 1, Burlesques Nos. 1 and 2, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. For Christmas vacation Bartok travels to Szöllős Puszta to his sisters family with his mother and aunt and his own family. 1923 1 January - In Budapest he and Imre Waldbauer perform Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 between string quartets by Brahms and Tchaikovsky. 3 January - Bartok thanks Stefánia E Szalay for her New Years good wishes, and writes about concert plans for Transylvania (which didn’t come true eventually). László Cs. Szabó (a writer, later settled in London) studying at the Protestant Grammar School of Budapest, is piano pupil of Mrs Bartok, and as such asks Bartok for a performance. 14 January - At the matinee organised by the Protestant Grammar School at the Music Academy Bartoks programme is: Burlesque No. 2, Dirge No. 1, Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, Rumanian Dance No. 1. 19 January - Bartok gets a fever, so his appearance with the Lehner String Quartet, planned for the 20th, is cancelled. (He got well already by the 21st.) In a letter to Zoltán Székely he writes, among others things, that he would send the piano and violin parts of the Sonata around the 25th. 217
