György Kurtág
Hungarian composer and pianist (born 1926) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Kurtág" redirects here. For his wife, see Márta Kurtág.
The native form of this personal name is Kurtág György. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
György Kurtág (Hungarian: [ˈɟørɟ ˈkurtaːɡ]; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist.[1] According to Grove Music Online, with a style that draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, his work is characterized by compression in scale and forces, and by a particular immediacy of expression".[2] In 2023 he was described as "one of the last living links to the defining postwar composers of the European avant-garde".[3]
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He was an academic teacher of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1967, later also of chamber music, and taught until 1993.