Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1923 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE 2 February - He writes concert organiser András Vitéz in Kassa, then travels to Germany with the Waldbauer String Quartet for the Béla Bartok Week of Chamber Music organised by the Melos Society. 4 February - In Leipzig composers evening in a concert hall at 18 Dittrichring. 6 February - In Berlin, at 6/a Bellevue Str. the Waldbauers play String Quartet No. 2 and Bartok plays Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 with Imre Waldbauer. 7 February - Still in Berlin, this day the programme is String Quartet No. 1 and Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2. This latter is a world premiere, it gets played twice in a row. 9 February - In Berlin the programme of the morning concert consists of String Quartet No. 1, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 and Bartok playing in solo Dirge No. 1, Suite and Rumanian Dance No. 1. - At the evening concert the Waldbauers don ’t perform; Wilhelm Guttmann sings five of the 8 Hungarian Folk Songs, Bartoks programme consists of Nos. 7 to 15 of 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Dirge No. 1, Sonatina, Suite, Elegy No. 2, 3 Burlesques, and he plays Improvisations twice as Nos. 5 and 7 on the programme. 11 February - He arrives back in Budapest. 25 February - He writes Zoltán Székely a postcard in German. 27 February - “Composer’s and Piano Soirée ” at the Music Academy, where he performs with Ede Zathureczky for the first time, playing Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, a Budapest premiere. Oszkár Kálmán sings 4 songs by Kodály to the poems of Ady, Berzsenyi and Kölcsey, accompanied by Bartok, then Bartok plays Nos. 1, 2 and 5 to 15 of 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, 9 pieces of the series For Children, Debussy’s Mouvement and Golliwogs Cake-Walk, then again from his own compositions Rumanian Folk Dances, Dirge No. 2, and Burlesque No. 3. 1 March - He writes a letter to concert organiser András Vitéz in Kassa. 218
