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Kurtág György: ...couple égyptien en route vers l'inconnu...
for upright piano (con supersordino) or pianoforte
Category: Piano
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14989
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 unknown master more than 4000 years ago (i.e. between 2350-2200, the time of the VIth…
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Kurtág György: ...quasi una fantasia...
for piano and groups of instruments dispersed in space
Category: Chamber Orchestra
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 13742
"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 orchestras scattered throughout the concert hall sounding from different directions…
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Kurtág György: 13 Pieces for two cimbaloms
from "Játékok"
Category: Cimbaloms
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 8773
From volumes I-IV of piano collection Games, the composer made transcriptions for the cimbalom, an instrument which has always been exceptionally dear to him.
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Kurtág György: 4 Capriccios
nach Gedichten von István Bálint für Sopran and Kammerorchester
Category: Voice and piano
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Edition
Catalogue number: UE30393
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Kurtág György: 4 Capriccios
nach Gedichten von István Bálint für Sopran and Kammerorchester
Category: Chamber Music with Voice
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Edition
Catalogue number: UE31264
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Kurtág György: 6 Moments Musicaux for string quartet
Category: String Quartet
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14512
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 Játékok for piano. 6 Moments musicaux was dedicated to György Kurtág junior…
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Kurtág György: 8 Klavierstücke
op.3
Category: Piano
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Edition
Catalogue number: UE14140
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Kurtág György: Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova
for soprano and chamber ensemble to poems by Rimma Dalos
Words by Rimma Dalos
Category: Chamber Music with Voice
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 12021
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 with their cruel sincerity ranges from nostalgia to rebellion, from melancholy…
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Kurtág György: The Small Snag
for piccolo, trombone and guitar
Category: Mixed Trio
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 12020
This cycle, created at the same time as Kurtág's large-scale Russian-language song cycles, expresses the composer's affection for Russian music and Russian culture in a half-serious, half-joking manner. There are probably personal reasons for the special arrangement of instruments.
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Kurtág György: Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach
for piano (duet and six hands) and for two pianos
Category: Piano Duet
Genre: Pedagogical performance pieces
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 13823
1-19. for piano four hands
20. for piano six hands
21-27. for two pianos
For György Kurtág, the inspiration that can be drawn from earlier music is particularly important, and he approaches them mostly by working together with performers, teaching them, or making…
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Kurtág György: Aus der Ferne III
for string quartet
Category: String Quartet
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14100
Aus der Ferne III is a short piece written in 1991 for the 90th birthday of Alfred Schlee, the emblematic director of the Viennese publishing house Universal Edition. The cycle of five pieces Aus der Ferne thus unfolds over more than fifteen years: Aus der Ferne n° 1 and 2 for piano…
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Kurtág György: Der Glaube für Violoncello solo (1998)
Category: Violoncello
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Edition
Catalogue number: UE33372
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Kurtág György: Bagatelles
for flute, double bass and piano
Category: Mixed Trio
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 12494
The work, composed in 1981, is a transcription of six well-known pieces from the piano cycle Játékok, which was begun in 1973 and has since expanded to ten volumes. Michelle Lee, Rafael Gonzales de Lare and Richard Nunn played at the London premiere in 1982. Since then, the work…
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Kurtág György: Die Sprüche des Péter Bornemisza.
Concerto für Sopran und Klavier
Category: Voice and piano, Vocal: soprano and piano
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Edition
Catalogue number: UE14493
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Kurtág György: Colindă-Baladă
for tenor solo, chorus and chamber ensemble
Category: Choir and chamber orchestra
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14668
"A continuation of Cantata profana", said Ferenc László, a Hungarian music historian in Romania, about this work. Indeed, Kurtág uses in his cantata a Romanian kolinda text and melody collected by Bartók, which tells about the love of the Sun and the Moon, brother and sister…
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Kurtág György: Erinnerung an einen Winterabend
für Sopran, Violine und Cymbal
Category: Chamber Music with Voice
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Edition
Catalogue number: UE15907
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Kurtág György: Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs (1996/1999)
for soprano and double bass
Category: Chamber Music with Voice
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14242
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 aphorisms, only appeared posthumously. It embraces almost all the themes that concerned…
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Kurtág György: Lebenslauf (1992)
for two basset-horns and two pianos
Category: Mixed Quartet
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 13967
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 of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos)…
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Kurtág György: S. K. Remembrance Noise
Seven Songs for soprano and violin to poems by D. Tandori
Words by Tandori Dezsö
Category: Chamber Music with Voice
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 7940
Dezső Tandori's poems, raising abstract, linguistic and art-philosophical questions, seem to be far from Kurtág's individuality, yet he is one of the Hungarian poets whose texts the composer returned to several times. S.K. Remembrance Noise (together with the Four songs to the poems…
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Kurtág György: Grabstein für Stephan
(In memoriam Stephan Stein) for guitar and groups of instruments
Category: Chamber Orchestra
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 13813
This piece, written in memory of Stephan Stein in 1989 for guitar solo and chamber ensemble, grew out from sketches made in 1978-79.
At the core of the musical texture is a choral-like sequence of guitar chords occasionally completed or interrupted by chordal or melodic…
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