Monday, October 24, 2022

TDCM: October 24th - György Kurtág

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 


György Kurtág ( b.1926 )


Bio

György Kurtág was born in Lugoj, Romania. His parents were Hungarian and he moved to Budapest and became a Hungarian citizen in his 20s. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music but left Hungary after the 1956 uprising. He studied under Messiaen, Deutsch, and Milhaud in Paris. He has held several teaching posts and won several awards including the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, the John Cage Award, and just recently in 2020 the Rolf Schock Prize. 

Music

Officium breve, in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky


da Játékok


Double Concerto No. 2


Stele


12 Microludes for String Quartet


Quartetto per archi



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