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Born:
19 February
1926
— Lugoj
— Romania
Died:
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Music
Some of his works are recorded on ECM:
- György Kurtág/Robert Schumann
Neun Stücke fur Viola solo / Jelek op.5 / Hommage à R. Sch. op.15d / Märchenbilder op.113 / Fantasiestücke op.73 / Märchenerzählungen op.132
Kim Kashkashian: viola / Robert Levin: piano / Eduard Brunner: clarinet - Musik für Streichinstrumente
Aus der Ferne III für Streichquartett / Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervansky / Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie / Quartetto per archi / Hommage a Mihaly Andras 12 Mikroludein fur Streichquartett / Ligatura - Message to Frances Marie
The Keller Quartett / Andras Keller: violin / Janos Pilz: violin / Zoltán Gal: viola / Otto Kertesz: cello / György Kurtág: celesta / Miklos Perenyi: cello - Jatekok
Flowers We Are, Mere Flowers... (... embracing sounds) / J.S. Bach: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir / Preludium and Chorale / Knots / Antiphone in f-sharp / Dirge 1 / Hommage a Christian Wolff (Half-asleep) / Play with Overtones / Perpetuum mobile (objet trouve) / ... and once more: Flowers We Are ... / Beating - Quarrelling / Study to “Hölderlin” / J.S. Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Sonatina from Actus Tragicus) / Bells / Furious Chorale / Hoquetus / Palm Stroke / Bluebell / Thistle / Stubbunny / Harmonica / Hommage a Domenico Scarlatti / Aus der Ferne / J.S. Bach: Triosonata in E-flat Major I, 1 / Dirge 1a / Dirge 2 / Tumble-Bunny / Hommage a Kurtág Marta / J.S. Bach: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig / Evocation of Petrushka / Adoration, adoration, accursed desolation ... / Hommage a Soproni / Hommage a Halmagyi Mihaly / Scraps of a colinda melody - faintly recollected
Marta Kurtág: piano / György Kurtág: piano
Life
The Romanian-born composer György Kurtág became an Hungarian citizen in 1948. In the beginning of his carreer he was a disciple of Bartók and Kodály. Later in his life he became a follower of the serialism of Webern.
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