György Kurtág

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 it with the composer s peri...

For a Hungarian composer, writing music set to the poems of Attila József is no small feat. In this series, György Kurtág (* 1926) took on this immense challenge in a unique way even within his own oe...

Three old inscriptions, Op. 25 to a Hungarian folk text, words on a Transylvanian mangle and the epitaph of a young German girl in a Hungarian village cemetery, for soprano and piano (in Hungarian and...

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Die ersten fünf Gesänge dieses Zyklus' sind Vertonungen des deutschen Dichters der Romantik Friedrich Hölderlin (177-1843). Der 6. Satz ist ein Kommentar des Dichters Paul Celan (192-197) über Hölderl...

Die zwei Klavierstücke mit dem Titel …ägyptisches Paar auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte… wurden von einer Statue inspiriert, die in der ägyptischen Sammlung des Louvre in Paris zu sehen ist. Das lebensgroße...

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who was his student in earlier years and who, throughout his entire life...

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who was his student in earlier years and who, throughout his entire life...

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...

I wanted for musicians to not be able to discuss how bad the music was during rehearsals, ' said György Kurtág (* 1926) at his own expense in reference to his works, which call for the use of orchestr...

The original version of the piece, Message to Frances Marie, op. 31a was composed for cello solo with two bows for the American cellist Frances Marie Uitti. The subtitle refers to the title of a compo...

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor...

The work was written for the Piccoli Archi Youth Ensemble in Ny regyháza and its conductor Nándor Tóth for the 20th anniversary of the ensemble. At the festive concert on 23 October 2004 the short pie...

nach Gedichten von István Bálint