György Kurtág
Born: 19th February 1926, Lugoj, Romania
Nationality: Hungarian
György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to Grove Music Online, with a style that draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, 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".
He was an academic teacher of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1967, later also of chamber music, and taught until 1993.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/György_Kurtág
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György Kurtág at 100
19th Feb 2026
Today, György Kurtág celebrates his 100th birthday. Born in 1926 in Lugoj, Romania, György Kurtág is a contemporary classical music composer regarded as one of the foremost living composers of our time.
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Popular Works: Kurtág
- …quasi una fantasia…op. 27 No. 1 (1)
- 3 Pieces, Op. 38 (1)
- 3 Pieces, Op. 38a (1)
- A Kis Csáva, for piccolo, guitar & trombone, Op. 15b (1)
- Acht Chöre zu Gedichten von Dezsö Tandori, Op. 23 (1)
- Attila József - Fragments, Op. 20 (1)
- Aus der Ferne III (2)
- Bref Message a Pierre Boulez (1)
- Capriccios (4) to poems by István Bálint, Op. 9 (2)
- Colinda-Balada (1)
- Doppelkonzert, Op. 27 No. 2 (1)
- Eight Duets for Violin and Cimbalom, Op. 4 (1)
- Életút Lebenslauf, Op. 32 (1)
- Four Songs to poems by János Pilinszky, Op. 11 (1)
- Grabstein für Stephan Op. 15c (1)
- Hölderlin-Gesänge, for baritone, Op. 35a (1)
- Hommage a Jacob Obrecht (1)
- Jatekok (Games), Book I (2)
- Jatekok (Games), Book III (1)
- Jatekok (Games), Book IV (1)
- Jatekok (Games), Book VIII (1)
- Klárisok (Beads), chorus to the poem by Attila József (1)
- Klavierstücke (8), Op. 3 (1)
- Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Troussova, Op. 17 (1)
- Microludes for string quartet, Op. 13 (1)
- Moments musicaux (6), Op. 44 for string quartet (1)
- Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky, Op. 28 (1)
- Omaggio a Luigi Nono, Op. 16 (1)
- Poems (4) by Anna Akhmatova, Op. 41 (1)
- Requiem for the Beloved, Op. 26 (1)
- S. K. - Remembrance Noise, Op. 12 (1)
- Signs, Games & Messages (7)
- Songs of Despair and Sorrow, Op 18 (1)
- Splinters (2)
- Stele Op. 33 (1)
- String Quartet, Op 1 (1)
- Suite for Four Hands (1)
- The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, Op. 7 (1)
- Transcriptions from Machaut to J S Bach (1)
- Tre Pezzi for Violin and Piano, Op. 14e (1)
