György Kurtág

1-19. for piano four hands 20. for piano six hands 21-27. for two pianos

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

Die vorliegende Sammlung ist der Anhang zum Band 'Übertragungen von Machaut bis J. S. Bach' von György Kurtag. Diese Stücke entstanden ursprünglich zum eigenen Gebrauch des Ehepaars Kurtag, Marta und...

Die Herausgabe von György Kurtágs Kammermusik für Streicher stellt ein lang ersehntes Ereignis dar: Die von ihm veranstalteten Meisterkurse und die Schallplattenaufnahme desOrlando Trios lösten gegenü...

This edition continues the series of György Kurtág's Bach transcriptions for piano duet which were published in 'Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach' and 'Seven Bach Chorales'. These pieces were...

The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived as a piano method. As the years went by, the series lost its didactic character, at it came to be seen as a document from Kurt...

Die Herausgabe von György Kurtágs Kammermusik für Streicher stellt ein lang ersehntes Ereignis dar: Die von ihm veranstalteten Meisterkurse und die Schallplattenaufnahme desOrlando Trios lösten gegenü...

Signs, games and messages are compositions of differing length, written for different occasions: musical letters, tributes, playful games with instrumental technique. In the past year pieces for violi...

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

Signs, Games and Messages are series for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three notions refers to an essential factor in Kurtág's music. Signs ties in with the composer's peri...

Die Klavierreihe mit dem Titel Játékok/Games, geschrieben ab 1973, wurde ursprünglich als Klaviermethode konzipiert. Im Laufe der Jahre verlor die Reihe ihren didaktischen Charakter und wurde als Doku...

György Kurtág hat sich in jeder Phase seiner Karriere durch das Studium von Meisterwerken aus früheren Epochen der Musikgeschichte inspirieren lassen. So hat er zahlreiche Transkriptionen von Werken a...

Diese Übertragung einiger Stücke aus ‚Játékok' hat die folgende Satzfolge: Fanfare I. - Klagegesang I. - Schläge I. - Klagegesang II. - Fanfare II. - Hommage á Paganini (La nuova campanella) - Appendi...

The work was dedicated to the Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher Jen Takács (1902-2005) for his 100th birthday. The hitherto unpublished short piece will be premiered by the Staatskapel...

Signs, games and messages are compositions of differing length, written for different occasions: musical letters, tributes, playful games with instrumental technique. In the past year pieces for violi...

Stele for large orchestra was commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker and has been dedicated to and premiered by Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1994, in Kurtág's second year of...

Kurtágs neuestes Orchesterwerk wurde vom Lucerne Festival anlässlich des 90. Geburtstags von Pierre Boulez in Auftrag gegeben. Es wurde am 23. August 2015 vom Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra unter...

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...