Musicological conference on the 90th birthday of György Kurtág Insitute of Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2–3 June 2016, Budapest Organizers: Anna Dalos, Péter Halász
Musicological conference on the 90th birthday of György Kurtág Insitute of Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2–3 June 2016, Budapest Organizers: Anna Dalos, Péter Halász

Summary/Abstract: There is something essential and essentially unanswerable in Kurtág’s music that makes his art in a certain way radically new and so important in the contemporary musical scene. The twenty-six papers delivered at the musicological conference on the György Kurtág’s 90th birthday confirmed this. The number of the presentations indicates not only the significance of his art but the great variety of musicological approaches as well, which is no wonder considering his creative praxis that differs fundamentally from the traditional or canonic way of composing. As a result of this, it is necessary to revise or modify the common strategies of thinking and speaking about music making it possible to grasp this autonomous artistic world.

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