György Kurtág

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Sheet music for Kurtág

[details ←] ...concertante...Op. 42 (2003)
[details ←] Kafka Fragments, Op. 24 for soprano and violin, violin,
[details ←] Hommage a R. Sch., Op. 15d
[details ←] Signs, Games and Messages, double bass,
[details ←] Scenes from a Novel, violin,
[details ←] Bagatelles for Flute, Double Bass and Piano, Op. 14d, piano, double bass, flute,
[details ←] Six Pieces
[details ←] Transcriptions from Machaut to J.S. Bach
[details ←] Games for Piano - Volume 4: Duets for Two Pianos, piano,
[details ←] Games for Piano - Volume 5, piano,
[details ←] Games for Piano - Volume 7, piano,
[details ←] Games for Piano - Volume 3, piano,
[details ←] Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervansky, Op. 28, viola, violin, cello, string quartet,
[details ←] Games for Piano - Volume 1, piano,
[details ←] Signs, Games And Messages Viola, viola,
[details ←] String Quartet, Op. 1, viola, violin, cello, string quartet,
[details ←] Signs, Games And Messages Violin, violin,
[details ←] Games for Piano - Volume 6, piano,
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Born: 19 February 1926 — Lugoj — Romania
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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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