György Kurtág
Hungarian composer
György Kurtág (Hungarian: [ˈɟørɟ ˈkurtaːɡ]; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to Grove Music Online, his style draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky", and "his work is characterized by compression in scale and forces, and by a particular immediacy of expression". In 2023 he was described as "one of the last living links to the defining postwar composers of the European avant-garde".
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Works
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- ... quasi una fantasia..., op. 27 no. 1
- ...pas à pas - nulle part..., op. 36
- 6 Moments musicaux, op. 44
- A kis csáva, op. 15b
- Acht Klavierstücke, op. 3
- Bornemissza Péter mondásai, op. 7
- Brefs Messages, op. 47
- Darabok a Gitáriskolának
- Egy téli alkony emlékére, op. 8
- Eight Choruses to Poems by Dezső Tandori, op. 23
- Four Capriccios, op. 9
- Four Poems by Anna Akhmatova, op. 41
- Four Songs to Poems by János Pilinszky, op. 11
- Hommage à Elliott Carter
- Hommage à Mihály András, op. 13
- Hommage à R. Sch., op. 15d
- Hölderlin-Gesänge, op. 35a
- Jelek, op. 5
- Jelék, op. 5b
- Játékok
- Kafka-Fragmente, op. 24
- Ligatura, Message-Hommage à Frances-Marie Uitti, op. 31b
- Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova, op. 17
- Nyolc duó hegedűre es cimbalomra, op. 4
- Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, op. 28
- Omaggio a Luigi Nono, op. 16
- Op. 27 no. 2 (Double Concerto)
- Quartetto per archi, op. 1
- Samuel Beckett: What is the Word?, op. 30b
- Signs, Games and Messages
- Signs, Games and Messages for Viola
- Songs of Despair and Sorrow, op. 18
- Suite - für Klavier vierhändig
- Szálkák, op. 6c
- Szálkák, op. 6d
- Three Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 14e
- ΣΤΉΛΗ, op. 33
Box sets & recent recordings
- Kurtág: Játékok — György Kurtág, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (2025) box set · 81 tracks Spotify
- Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir — György Kurtág, Asko Schönberg, Netherlands Radio Choir, Reinbert de Leeuw (2017) box set · 52 tracks Spotify
- György Kurtág: Játékok — György Kurtág, Brigitte Poulin (2025) box set · 50 tracks Spotify
- Kurtag: Complete Works for String Quartet — György Kurtág, Athena String Quartet (2013) box set · 45 tracks Spotify
- From Afar — Víkingur Ólafsson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, György Kurtág, Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms, Sigvaldi Kaldalóns, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2022) box set · 44 tracks Spotify
- Kurtág: 80 — György Kurtág, Márta Kurtág, György Kurtág Jr. (2007) box set · 37 tracks Spotify
- György Kurtág: Complete Flute Music — György Kurtág, Markus Bronnimann (2025) box set · 36 tracks Spotify
- Kurtág, Bach: Játékok — György Kurtág, Márta Kurtág, Johann Sebastian Bach (1997) box set · 34 tracks Spotify
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