Signs Games And Messages - Album

Signs Games And Messages (Album) by György Kurtág

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Biographie de l'artiste pour György Kurtág

György Kurtág Is Hungary’s Leading Composer Performed Worldwide * Heir To Webernian Expressionism Favouring Concentrated Miniatures Exploring A Wide Range Of Human Emotions * Many Recent Works Expand Spatial Horizons Including …quasi Una Fantasia… 1987-88 And Op.27 No.2 ‘Double Concerto’ 1989-90 * Major Contributions To Chamber Music Repertoire Including Three String Quartets And Hommage À R Sch 1990 For Clarinet Viola And Piano * Interested In Training Musicians Exemplified By Ongoing Series Of Piano Studies Játékok 1975- * Music Championed By Leading Conductors Including Claudio Abbado Simon Rattle Christoph Von Dohnányi And Peter Eötvös György Kurtág Was Born On 19th February 1926 At Lugos Lugoj In Rumanian In The Bánát An Area Which Had Been Ceded To Rumania After World War I Under The Treaty Of Trianon. Dicsöszentmárton György Ligeti's Birthplace Is Not Far From Lugos Both Of Them Small Towns Inhabited For Centuries By A Mixed Population Of Hungarians Germans Saxons And Rumanians. From 1940 Kurtág Took Piano Lessons From Magda Kardos And Studied Composition With Max Eisikovits At Temesvár Timisoara . Early In September 1945 He Made His Way To Budapest In The Hope Of Being Admitted To The Class Of Béla Bartók At The Franz Liszt Academy Of Music. News Of His Death Was A Great Shock Both To Kurtág And A Fellow Student Who Had Also Hoped To Study With Bartók The Friendship Between György Kurtág And György Ligeti Began In Those Days In Budapest. At The Budapest Academy Kurtág Studied The Piano With Pál Kadosa Composition With Sándor Veress And Ferenc Farkas And Chamber Music With Leó Weiner. He Became A Hungarian Citizen In 1948. He Graduated In Piano And Chamber Music In 1951 Obtaining His Degree In Composition In 1955. 1957/58 Proved A Significant Year In Kurtág's Life Working In Paris With The Hungarian Psychologist Marianne Stein And Attending The Courses Of Olivier Messiaen And Darius Milhaud. His Encounter With The Music Of Anton Webern Whose Scores His Copied Out For Himself The Plays Of Samuel Beckett French Architecture E.G. Chartres Cathedral And Nature All Combined To Generate A Profound Change In His Musical Thinking. The First Tangible Result Of This Process Was The String Quartet Op. 1 Composed After His Return To Budapest In 1959. Between 1960 And 1968 He Worked As Répétiteur For The National Philharmonia The State Concert Agency In 1967 He Was Appointed Professor Of Piano Subsequently Also Of Chamber Music At The Budapest Academy Retiring In 1986. In 1971 Kurtág Spent A Year In Berlin On A DAAD Scholarship. In 1987 He Was Elected Member Of The Bavarian Academy Of Fine Arts In Munich As Well As Of The Berlin Academy Of Arts. Prior To His Opus 33 "Stele" Written For Claudio Abbado And The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra During His Two-Year Composer-In-Residency 1993-1995 Kurtág Had Composed - Apart From Choruses - Chamber Music Exclusively From Solo Pieces To Works For Chamber Ensemble Growing In Size And Sophistication. His International Reputation Was Established By "Messages Of The Late Miss R.V.Troussova" Op. 17 For Soprano And Chamber Ensemble World Premiere In Paris On 14 January 1981 . "...Quasi Una Fantasia..." Op. 27 No. 1 For Piano And Instrumental Groups Composed For A Series Of Concerts Dedicated To Him By The Berlin Festival In October 1988 Was The First Work Where He Realised His Long-Standing Idea Of Spatial Music Where The Public Is Enveloped By Sound Coming From Various Points In The Concert Hall. Several Pieces Followed Which Were Based On The Same Idea Using Instruments As Their Protagonists Rather Than The Human Voice Which Until Then Had Played A Central Role In His Oeuvre. Until The Mid-1970's Kurtág's Music Was Published By Universal Edition Some Works Jointly With Editio Musica Budapest. In The Season 1995/96 György Kurtág Is Composer-In-Residence Of The Vienna Konzerthaus Society. Works By György Kurtág Include Messages Of The Late Miss R V Troussova 1976-80 For Soprano And Ensemble
Kafka Fragments 1985-87 For Soprano And Violin
Stele 1994 For Orchestra