Bálint András Varga

György Kurtág (eBook, PDF)

Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages

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Produktbeschreibung

Uniquely revealing interviews with one of the world's greatest living composers.

György Kurtág (b. 1926) is widely regarded as one of the foremost composers in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. Born in Romania, he received crucial training in Paris from Olivier Messiaen and Marianne Stein. He was also shaped by his broadening contact there with the music of Webern and such challenging literary works as the plays of Samuel Beckett. After many years in Hungary, teaching at the Budapest Academy of Music,Kurtág settled near Bordeaux with his wife Márta. The two regularly perform duo-recitals of his music. In 2006, his . . . concertante . . . (2003, for violin, viola and orchestra) won the coveted Grawemeyer Award for MusicComposition.
This unique set of interviews with Kurtág, alone or with his wife, gives a fascinating insight into the composer's personality, which is marked by shyness but also an unquenchable thirst for impressions of every kind [artistic, natural and human]. The two speak with disarming openness about their lives -- the background against which masterpieces like Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova (1976-80, for soprano and chamber orchestra) or Stele (1994, for orchestra) were written.
The analysis of certain of Kurtág's works, especially of . . . concertante . . ., shows the way that his mind works: no system, no dogma, no formulae -- rather, basic human emotions expressed through means that speak directly to the listener's innermost feelings.

The Hungarian music publisher Bálint András Varga has spent nearly forty years working for and with composers.He has published several books, including extensive interviews with Lutoslawski, Berio, and Xenakis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580467247
• Artikelnr.: 63918482

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Portrait Sketch of György Kurtág in Three Sittings Three
Questions to György Kurtág (1982-1985) The Three Questions Again (1996) Key
Words (2007-2008) Mementos of a Friendship: György Kurtág on György Ligeti
A Brief Biography of György Kurtág Personalia List of Works Discography
Notes Bibliography Index