ps: another interesting tidbit from Dolmetsch's excellent book is the fact that apparently, while in Hungary, another recording was made of MT. "apparently since lost" -- acc. to Dolmetsch, p. 56!
Or is it hidden in some vault or attic somewhere?? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Subject: Re: More thoughts on Central Europe: Did MT visit present day Slovakia?
Folks; some final confirmation on this question: the answer being YES, evidently MT and his wife & daughters did spend at least several hours in the territory now called Slovakia. I'm sure you are all just as relieved to learn this as I am.
The train that took them from Vienna to Budapest in late March of 1898 passed through Bratislava (then called Pressburg/ Pozsony) as well as other towns now part of Slovakia. It proceeded to the famous "Danube bend" at Visegrad, now a border town; and onward to Budapest. All of it was part of the Habsburg empire, of course. The story of the visit to Hungary is in Carl Dolmetsch, "Our Famous Guest" pp. 51-59.
Indeed it is the very train line that I rode on for our visit to Budapest back in March! And perhaps many others on here have ridden in the past... Small world.
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