György Kurtág

György Kurtág
Kurtág in 2014 by Lenke Szilágyi
Born (1926-02-19) 19 February 1926
Lugoj, Romania
Occupations
  • Composer
  • pianist
WorksList of compositions
Spouse
(m. 1947; died 2019)

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.