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

Economic Crisis (1932–1933)

ECONOMIC CRISIS (1 932-1 933)

1933

Székely, whose

help in handling his foreign currencies he had likewise asked for and been granted. - In the afternoon he leaves for home.

19 July

- He arrives in Budapest.

21 July

- He thanks Sándor

Albrecht

for his recent financial measures.

22 July

- He visits the Zoltán

Kodálys, and

on the 24th and 28th his mother to whom he brings photographs and accumulated articles.

28 July

- The Bartoks get a visit from Mrs Schulthess b. Stefi

Geyer

and her 12-year-old little daughter.

30 July

- Bartok has lunch at Emilia Nirschy s family (she had been the first to dance the Princess in The Wooden Prince, and was taking piano lessons with him in this period).

3 August

- He writes his new phone number (647-56) to his former pupil Mrs Bessenyei

b.

Irma

Fábry, and

that following his coming trip abroad he will gladly comply with her wish of listening to her pupil.

1 and

4 August - He visits his mother and aunt.

5 August

- He leaves at noon for Switzerland via Vienna.

6 August

- Passing through Basel he arrives in Strasbourg.

8 August

- In Strasbourg he buys his train ticket for home.

9 August

- At the Conservatoire of Strasbourg, being No. 4 of a “Hungarian concert” in front of an invited audience of 100, he plays Piano Concerto No. 2 conducted by Vilmos Palotai:

“

he was a beginner, wasn’t conducting particularly”. In the sequence of his appearances in France, Bartok performed fourteen times in Paris - this was the only occasion he also gave a concert in another French city. - He leaves for home the same evening.

10 August

- He arrives in Budapest.

11 August

- He visits his mother and aunt.

12 August

- Universal Edition having given no answer regarding the male choirs, Bartok - losing his patience - prepares and sends off an agreement to the “Choral Society Béla

Bartok

” of Pozsony,

giving

them the rights for preparing and using the parts.

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