Transcription for piano duet (three hands)
Transcribed by Kurtág György
Instrument: Pianos (2)
Gen: Contemporary Works
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
Transcription for piano duet
Transcribed by Kurtág György
Instrument: Piano Duet
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
Transcription for piano
Transcribed by Kurtág György
Instrument: Pian
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for upright piano (con supersordino) or pianoforte
Instrument: Pian
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for piano and groups of instruments dispersed in space
Instrument: Chamber Orchestra
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for piano (duet and six hands) and for two pianos
Instrument: Piano Duet
Gen: Pedagogical performance pieces
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for flute, double bass and piano
Instrument: Mixed Trio
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for two basset-horns and two pianos
Instrument: Mixed Quartet
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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)…
Instrument: Trombone and piano
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
Transcriptions for piano four hands
Instrument: Piano Duet
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for clarinet (also bass drum), viola and piano
Instrument: Mixed Trio
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for four hands and two pianos
Instrument: Piano Duet
Gen: Pedagogical performance pieces
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for Piano
Instrument: Pian
Gen: Pedagogical performance pieces
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for Piano
Instrument: Pian
Gen: Pedagogical performance pieces
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for Piano
Instrument: Pian
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for piano duet and two pianos
Instrument: Piano Duet, Pianos (2)
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
for piano duet
Instrument: Piano Duet
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
(Double Concerto) for piano and violoncello solo and two chamber ensembles
Instrument: Orchestra
Perioada: Contemporary Music
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 13988
for soprano and piano
Instrument: Voice and piano
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 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…
per violino e pianoforte
Instrument: Violin and Piano
Gen: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Editor: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numar articol: 14104
A transcription of Herdecker Eurythmie II, op. 14b for violin and piano