György Kurtág

György Kurtág in 2014

György Kurtág (Hungarian: [ˈɟørɟ ˈkurtaːɡ]; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian classical composer and pianist. He was born in Lugoj, Hungary. 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.

In 1947, he married pianist Márta Kurtág. She died in October 2019.

György Kurtág Media

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  The beginning of the piece "Hommage à Tchaikovsky" from Játékok, parodying the opening of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Kurtág uses special notation in some of the pieces. In the score above, the large black dots mean "play with both palms laid side by side".

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  Left to right: Sára Gerlóczy, Márta Kurtág (wife), and György Kurtág.