Ulrich Tadday (ed.), (2020). Musik-Konzepte Sonderband XI/2020. György Kurtág
2022; Akadémiai Kiadó; Volume: 62; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1556/6.2021.00029
ISSN1789-2422
Autores Tópico(s)Arts, Culture, and Music Studies
ResumoIn 2020 the special edition of the series Musik Konzepte was dedicated to the creative path of the 95-year-old György Kurtág.Though the central aim of the present volume is not merely the celebration of the anniversary, yet it offers a solemn résumé: fourteen studies discuss the manifold questions that can be raised in connection with Kurtág's recent oeuvre.Each study has a different aspect: one can find overviews as well as strict analyses that concentrate on each little segment of a certain compositional solution.The book ends with the abstracts in English (pp.332-333), and a timetable that lists the main events of Kurtág's life (pp.334-335).This makes clear that the studiesalthough having been written in a scholarly style and with an exact methodologyaddress not only musicologists, but also performers, and they offer instructive and illuminating reading material to the larger public of contemporary music, too.Many former monographs and study-volumes have already concerned themselves with the creative path of György Kurtág, 1 so in this sense the special edition of the Musik Konzepte connects to a lively discourse in contemporary music.Presenting the whole oeuvre would have generated an unlimited quantity of topics and writings, so the editor of the volume, Ulrich Tadday, concentrated on more particular topics.The first part of the book ("György Kurtágs Werk") contains seven studies that present the creative art of Kurtág in the context of the European artistic directions that affirmed the margins of musical life after 1945.The second part ("György Kurtágs Kafka-Fragmente [1985-87] und ihre Tradition") concentrates on the compositional and interpretational questions raised by the Kafka-Fragments, a work which can be regarded as emblematic in many aspects.The essays not only show several features of Kurtág's music as an organic part of its historical period, but they also reveal the inherent connections and recurring phenomena of the oeuvre.These topics include among others the different ways of representing of the inspiration gained from literature, or the psychological way of composition that also counts with the recipient and gives special attention to the psychosomatic effects while listening to music.Some of the studies deal with the generic types in
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