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 )

1931

the publication of the 44 Violin Duos.

14 June

- At the Munich Residenz

Theater

he performs Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 with Imre Waldbauer,

accompanies

singer Felicie Hünt-Mihacsek, and

plays solo piano pieces (Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, 2 Burlesques, Allegro barbaro,

Rumanian

Dance No. 1). - Hungarian Radio announces that Oxford University Press published the English translation of The Hungarian Folk Song (which had already happened in February).

15 June

- At the Börsensaal

of

Augsburg he plays Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 and Rhapsody No. 1 with Imre Waldbauer,

as

a soloist the same pieces as on the previous days programme, and accompanies singer Annemarie Kaltenbrunner.

16 June

- Appearance at Radio Munich with Imre Waldbauer.

Programme:

Mozarts Sonata in A major, 2 sonatinas by Schubert, Gertlers transcription of Bartoks Sonatina, Székely

s

transcription of Bartoks Rumanian Folk Dances. - He writes his mother: “Yesterday there was the Augsburg one spiced with the wooden one - not exactly the nicest”.

17 June

- He leaves Munich for Nuremberg where in the Great Hall of the Town-Hall he gives an evening of chamber music with Imre Waldbauer

and singer Edit Falus

with

the Augsburg programme. - “This tour has one advantage: that at long last I reached Nuremberg. There are lots to see here, my time is almost too short” - he writes his mother.

18 June

- In the afternoon he leaves Nuremberg for Frankfurt where in the evening he plays Bach’s Sonata in B minor, Mozarts Sonata in A major, and his own Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 with Imre Waldbauer

at the Radio. - In Frankfurt he is greeted by voluminous mail, among other things the press proofs of the Slovakian collection.

19 June

- He already resends the press proofs to Matica Slovenská

with

further remarks. - Due to bad weather he remains in Frankfurt longer than planned.

20 June

- Still there, he writes his mother before leaving in the evening.

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