György Kurtág

The first five items in the song cycle are settings of poems by the German Romantic poet, Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843). The 6th movement is a commentary on Hölderlin s last years, on the still rele...

Experience the captivating world of shared music-making with this evocative "Suite" for piano four-hands, published by the renowned Editio Musica Budapest. Playing piano duets unites virtuosic dialogu...

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 two piano pieces were inspired by a statue which can be seen in the Egyptian Collection of the Louvre in Paris. The full-length portrait of the couple holding hands was carved in wood by the unkno...

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...

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...

It was the Paris premiere in 1981 of Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova that brought the world's attention to the music of György Kurtág (born 1926). The spectrum of these feminine poems in Russian...

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...

György Kurtág's fascinating "Hommage à R. Schumann", Op. 15d, is a masterpiece of contemporary chamber music, brimming with poetic depth, expressive gestures, and subtle tonal colors. In an extraordin...

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 first performance of György Kurtág's song-cycle written to poems by Anna Akhmatova took place on January 3rd, 2009, in the Carnegie Hall, New York. In this work it is evidence of the exceptionally...

The polymath, naturalist and aesthetician Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) is an interesting figure of 18th-century German cultural history. Yet his most important work, his collection of aphor...

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...

Discover an extraordinary sonic journey with the "Eight Duos for violin and cimbalom," published by the renowned Editio Musica Budapest. These masterful duos bring together the expressive brilliance o...

Immerse yourself in a world of poignant intimacy and sonic poetry: With "S. K. Erinnerungsgeräusch op. 12", the renowned Editio Musica Budapest presents an extraordinary song cycle for voice and violi...

nach Gedichten von István Bálint

Mit den Schriften György Ligetis legt die Paul Sacher Stiftung die erste umfangreiche Textedition dieses herausragenden Komponisten der jüngeren Musikgeschichte vor. Die zentralen Essays finden sich h...