György Kurtág

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...

Bartók's music is of paramount importance for all Hungarian composers of the last hundred years: in the works of György Kurtág we also find open or hidden references to the great predecessor at severa...

György Kurtág è stato ispirato in ogni fase della sua carriera dallo studio dei capolavori dei periodi precedenti della storia della musica. Di conseguenza, ha scritto numerose trascrizioni di opere d...

Ho iniziato a comporre i miei pezzi per pianoforte chiamati Giochi nel 1973. Fino al 1979, anno di pubblicazione dei primi quattro volumi, queste opere esistevano solo come manoscritti, su fogli di ca...

La serie di pianoforti intitolata Játékok/Games, scritta a partire dal 1973, fu originariamente concepita come metodo pianistico. Col passare degli anni, la serie perse il suo carattere didattico e ve...

Nel 1978, in occasione della prima di Hommage a Mihály András, György Kurtág visitò Witten e lì incontrò gli insegnanti della scuola Waldorf di Witten-Herdecke. Per commemorare questo incontro, creò e...

They are arrangements from 'Játékok' made in the following sequence of movements: Fanfare I. - Dirge I. - Beating I. - Dirge II. - Fanfare II. - Hommage á Paganini (La nuova campanella) - Appendix: Be...

Begun in 1999, the work, which is Kurtág s fourth string quartet, had been completed in 2005. In this suite of 6 movements Kurtág reuses music from other compositions, most often from his long-running...

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 The hitherto unpublished short piece will be premiered by the Staatskapel...

Publication of György Kurtág's string chamber music is a long-awaited event: his chamber music master courses and the recording made by the Orlando Trio have aroused considerable interest in these wor...

The premiere of the so called 'third string quartet' composed in 1988/89 was given on the 1989 Witten Festival in the rendering of the Auryn Quartet.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kurtág s newest orchestral work was commissioned by the Lucerne Festival on the occasion of Pierre Boulez s 90th birthday. It was first performed on 23 August 2015 by the Lucerne Festival Academy Orch...