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Kurtág György: Games IX

Diary entries, personal messages

Setting: Piano
Genre: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Language: Hungarian, English, German
Length: 44 pages
Format: 23 x 30,2 cm (Bach)
Weight: 0.188 kg
Published: March 2017
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Item number: 14784
ISMN: 9790080147849
The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived originally as a piano method. Its early volumes introduced children to the basic elements in piano-playing and musical thinking, and, more importantly still, taught them to play music without inhibitions. As the years went by, the view of the series lost its didactic character. It came to be seen as a document from Kurtág's workshop, offering a key to his grander symphonic, chamber and vocal works as well. This change is exemplified in the subtitle Diary entries, personal messages added from the fifth volume onwards.

The pieces in the ninth volume date from 1989-2009, except the youthful Apple blossom, written in 1947. The movements, often aphorismic in their briefness, conceal associations with various aspects of European music history. Many of them are hommage or in memoriam pieces, or subjective personal messages to friends, colleagues, beloved family members or students, and thereby to all music-loving people.

Tünde Szitha

Contents

1.
... apple blossom ...
2.
3 HAGE-pieces
3.
... a wandering with Robert Walser
4.
A piece to be sung and played o the piano
5.
Quiet dialogue
6.
Medal
7.
... jubilate ...
8.
Hommage a Georg Kröll 70
9.
Hommage a Jehuda Elkana 70
10.
Claudia - Litaneien ...
11.
Gentle consolation
12.
... fallen leaves ...
13.
Stele
14.
... a flower in memory of Simone Verchaly
15.
To Anne ...
16.
Annának ... (alio modo)
17.
In memoriam Magdi
18.
Pécs, 1952
19.
Second strictly personal letter to András Szőllősy on his 85th birtday
20.
To András Wilheim
21.
To Miyako
22.
Kedves 2d
23.
Rituale - Strém Kálmán in memoriam
24.
Adieu, Haydée I
25.
Adieu, Haydée II
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