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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Largo for piano from the Sonata in C major for solo violin (BWV 1005)
Transcribed by Kurtág György
Category: Piano
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 15193
In November 2022, György Kurtág transcribed the Largo from J.S.Bach’s Sonata for Solo Violin in C major, BWV 1005, for piano as a birthday gift for his grandson, Johann Kurtág. The arrangement is characteristic of Kurtág’s late style, bringing together profound reverence for Bach’s…
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Trio Sonata BWV 525, First movement
Transcription for piano duet (three hands)
Transcribed by Kurtág György
Category: Pianos (2)
Genre: Contemporary Works
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 15203
This edition continues the series of György Kurtág's Bach transcriptions for piano duet which were published in 'Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach' and 'Seven Bach Chorales'. These pieces were originally written for the Kurtágs, György and his wife Márta, for their own use…
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Bartók Béla: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - First Movement
Transcription for piano duet
Transcribed by Kurtág György
Category: Piano Duet
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 15151
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 several places. This transcription for piano duet of the first movement of Music…
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Haydn, Franz Joseph: Adagio sostenuto dal quartetto d'archi Op. 76 No. 1
Transcription for piano
Transcribed by Kurtág György
Category: Piano
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 15291
György Kurtág has been inspired at every stage of his career by studying masterpieces from earlier periods of music history. As a result, he has written numerous transcriptions of works by old masters (Guillaume Machaut, Orlando Lasso, Frescobaldi, Schütz, Purcell, Bach, Mussorgsky…
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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: 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: 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: 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: Six pieces for trombone and piano
Category: Trombone and piano
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14176
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: Beating II. Kurtág dedicated the work composed in 1978 to the trombone artist Erika…
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Kurtág György: Seven Bach Chorales
Transcriptions for piano four hands
Category: Piano Duet
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14704
The present collection contains the composer's Bach transcriptions for piano four hands written since the publication of his volume of 'Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach'. These were originally composed for the Kurtágs, György and his wife Márta, for their own use, and they…
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Kurtág György: Hommage a R. Schumann
for clarinet (also bass drum), viola and piano
Category: Mixed Trio
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 13809
The work composed for clarinet, viola and piano was premiered in Budapest on October 8, 1990 (clarinet Tihanyi Gellért, viola Zoltán Gál, piano Márta Kurtág). The unusual instrumentation is identical to Schumann's Märchenerzählungen Op. 132. Composed as the first of the work's…
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Kurtág György: Games IV
for four hands and two pianos
Category: Piano Duet
Genre: Pedagogical performance pieces
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 8380
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 it. They pile up seemingly disconnected sounds, and if this happens to arouse their…
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Kurtág György: Games I
for Piano
Category: Piano
Genre: Pedagogical performance pieces
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 8377
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 it. They pile up seemingly disconnected sounds, and if this happens to arouse their…
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Kurtág György: Games II
for Piano
Category: Piano
Genre: Pedagogical performance pieces
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 8378
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 it. They pile up seemingly disconnected sounds, and if this happens to arouse their…
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Kurtág György: Games III
for Piano
Category: Piano
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 8379
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 it. They pile up seemingly disconnected sounds, and if this happens to arouse their…
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Kurtág György: Games VIII
for piano duet and two pianos
Category: Piano Duet, Pianos (2)
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 14591
The 8th volume of Kurtág's outstanding piano miniatures includes 16 of his personal musical notes, messages composed between 1982 and 2005. As with the earlier volumes, Kurtág dedicates most of these pieces to members of his artistic and intellectual circle of friends, although some…
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Kurtág György: Two Musorgsky Transcriptions
for piano duet
Category: Piano Duet
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 15138
For György Kurtág, Mussorgsky's works have always been an important model. Several of his works contain pieces referring to Mussorgsky (Games III, The Small Snag), and in his opera, Fin de partie, he also refers to Mussorgsky's declamation style. He made these two transcriptions…
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Kurtág György: Op. 27 No. 2
(Double Concerto) for piano and violoncello solo and two chamber ensembles
Category: Orchestra
Period: Contemporary Music
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 13988
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Kurtág György: Requiem for the Beloved
for soprano and piano
Words by Rimma Dalos
Category: Voice and piano
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Catalogue number: 13892
A four-movement song cycle created between 1982 and 1987 to the texts of Rimma Dalos, a Russian poet living in Hungary. The songs, composed in short, four-line verses, are masterful musical representations of the state of mind of the abandoned woman. (Works with a similar concept…
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