COMPOSER

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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of György Kurtág has received more than 248,867 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). György Kurtág is the 345th most popular composer (up from 364th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Romania and the 6th most popular Romanian Composer.

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  • 250k

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  • 59.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, György Kurtág ranks 345 out of 1,451. Before him are Georg Benda, Viktor Ullmann, Johann Schein, Pietro Della Valle, Hans Leo Hassler, and Frank Martin. After him are Louis Marchand, Elmer Bernstein, Sergei Taneyev, Johann Kuhnau, Germaine Tailleferre, and Karl Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, György Kurtág ranks 88. Before him are Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Francisco Rabal, Ta Mok, Gus Grissom, Poul Anderson, and Joan Sutherland. After him are Joachim Fest, James Stirling, Karl Richter, Hugo Banzer, Patricia Neal, and David H. Hubel.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, György Kurtág ranks 90 out of 844. Before him are Michael Cretu (1957), Pertevniyal Sultan (1812), Horia Sima (1907), Ion Țiriac (1939), Endre Ady (1877), and Angelica Rozeanu (1921). After him are Princess Ileana of Romania (1909), Vladimir Cosma (1940), Fritz Klein (1888), Károly Kerényi (1897), László Bölöni (1953), and Rezső Kasztner (1906).

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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), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Péter Eötvös (1944), Sándor Veress (1907), and Sándor Végh (1912).

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