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Gyoergy Kurtag - Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages (Hardcover)
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Gyoergy Kurtag - Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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Uniquely revealing interviews with one of the world's greatest
living composers. Gyoergy Kurtag (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,Kurtag settled near Bordeaux with his
wife Marta. 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 Kurtag, 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
Kurtag'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 Balint Andras 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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