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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of György Kurtág has received more than 235,182 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). György Kurtág is the 364th most popular composer (down from 349th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Romania (down from 79th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Romanian Composer.

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  • 240k

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  • 58.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, György Kurtág ranks 364 out of 1,216. Before him are Georg Muffat, Michael Nyman, Johann Kuhnau, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Joseph Martin Kraus, and Friedrich von Flotow. After him are Alfred Newman, Mieczysław Weinberg, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Johann Schein, Martin Agricola, and Rodion Shchedrin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, György Kurtág ranks 93. Before him are Youssef Chahine, Verner Panton, Karl Richter, Robert Fogel, Joachim Fest, and Ta Mok. After him are Maria Teresa de Filippis, Yoshio Okada, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Francisco Rabal, Jean-Marie Lustiger, and Siegfried Lenz.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, György Kurtág ranks 90 out of 665. Before him are Ion Țiriac (1939), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Vladimir Cosma (1940), Olga Szabó-Orbán (1938), Clara Haskil (1895), and Nicolae Iorga (1871). After him are Arnold Hauser (1892), Rezső Kasztner (1906), Ana Aslan (1897), Dositej Obradović (1742), Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903), and Ion Creangă (1837).

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Among COMPOSERS In Romania

Among composers born in Romania, György Kurtág ranks 7. Before him are Béla Bartók (1881), György Ligeti (1923), Iannis Xenakis (1922), George Enescu (1881), Ion Ivanovici (1845), and Vladimir Cosma (1940). After him are Bálint Bakfark (1507), Péter Eötvös (1944), Sándor Végh (1912), and Sándor Veress (1907).

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