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György Kurtág

1926 - Today

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György Kurtág (Hungarian: [ˈɟørɟ ˈkurtaːɡ]; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. 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". In 2023 he was described as "one of the last living links to the defining postwar composers of the European avant-garde". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. György Kurtág is the 280th most popular composer (up from 345th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Romania (up from 90th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Romanian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, György Kurtág ranks 280 out of 1,451. Before him are Steve Reich, Miklós Rózsa, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Henryk Górecki, Anton Reicha, and Uzeyir Hajibeyov. After him are Hanns Eisler, Franz Xaver Gruber, Eduard Hanslick, Anton Arensky, Valentyn Sylvestrov, and Jacques Ibert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, György Kurtág ranks 76. Before him are Joan Sutherland, John Fowles, Yoshio Okada, George Martin, Hilary Putnam, and Jorge Medina. After him are Andrew Schally, Henry Way Kendall, Gyula Grosics, Steve Reeves, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, and Dennis W. Sciama.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, György Kurtág ranks 72 out of 844. Before him are Clara Haskil (1895), Sigismund Báthory (1572), Ion Țiriac (1939), Ștefan Kovács (1920), György Dózsa (1470), and Iolanda Balaș (1936). After him are Jean Negulesco (1900), Edward G. Robinson (1893), Petre Dumitrescu (1882), Orban (1404), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), and László Rajk (1909).

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Among COMPOSERS In Romania

Among composers born in Romania, György Kurtág ranks 6. Before him are Béla Bartók (1881), György Ligeti (1923), George Enescu (1881), Iannis Xenakis (1922), and Ion Ivanovici (1845). After him are Vladimir Cosma (1940), Péter Eötvös (1944), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Sándor Veress (1907), and Sándor Végh (1912).

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