Eight piano pieces op.3

Eight Pieces for Piano , Op. 3 ( Hungarian Nyolc zongoradarab ) is a work for piano for two hands of György Kurtág in 1960.

overview

Kurtág's work on Eight Piano Pieces op. 3 was influenced by Andre Hajdus Plasmas (1957), six pieces for piano, and was partly begun during his studies in Paris . The piano pieces are considered aphoristic and are based on Anton von Webern and Béla Bartók . In the fifth piece, the twelve-tone music comes into its own, the intervals and the rhythm in the pieces suggest Bartók's influences.

It was Istvan Antal dedicated and was on 10 July 1960 at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt (Seminar Marienhöhe) of Andor Losonczy premiered . Losonczy copied the pieces from his childhood friend Kurtág in 1960 and anticipated the premiere by the dedicatee. The eight piano pieces were published by Editio Musica Budapest and Universal Edition in Vienna.

Antal recorded the work on July 13, 1961. Various radio companies later produced recordings, such as the SWR with Vera Lengyel on February 12, 1967 and the WDR with Alfons Kontarsky on June 2, 1967 and with Ádám Fellegi at a later date.

construction

The work is structured as follows:

1. Inesorabile. Andante con moto
2. Calmo
3. Sostenuto
4. Scorrevole
5. Prestissimo possibile
6. Grave
7. Adagio
8. Vivo

Discography

1977: LP Hungaroton SLPX 11846 - interpreter: Zoltán Kocsis
1982: LP Hungaroton SLPX 12394 - interpreter: István Antal
1990: CD Hungaroton HCD 31290 - Performers: István Antal and Zoltán Kocsis
2006: CD CAvi-music - artist: Peter Jósza
2016: CD Neos 11630 - Artist: Andor Losonczy

Web links

8 piano pieces Op. 3 in the Budapest Music Center database

Individual evidence

^ Bálint András Varga: Portrait sketch of György Kurtág in three sessions. In: ders. (Ed.): György Kurtág: Three conversations with Bálint András Varga and Ligeti Hommagen. Wolke, Hofheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-936000-40-5 , pp. 13–15, here: p. 13.
^ Péter Halász : Kurtág, György. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp - Lert). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1120-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
^ Arnfried Edler : Piano Music, A.IV.3. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, subject part, volume 5 (Kassel - Meiningen). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7618-1106-3 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
↑ ^a ^b ^c Friedrich Spangemacher (ed.): György Kurtág (= music of the time. Volume 5). Boosey and Hawkes, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-87090-205-1 , p. 89.
↑ Jürg Stenzl : "Enfant terrible of the silent scene". The composer Andor Losonczy . In: MusikTexte - magazine for new music , issue 151, November 2016, p. 101 f.
↑ ^a ^b Friedrich Spangemacher (ed.): György Kurtág (= music of the time. Volume 5). Boosey and Hawkes, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-87090-205-1 , p. 20.

[1] Bálint András Varga: Portrait sketch of György Kurtág in three sessions. In: ders. (Ed.): György Kurtág: Three conversations with Bálint András Varga and Ligeti Hommagen. Wolke, Hofheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-936000-40-5 , pp. 13–15, here: p. 13.

[2] Péter Halász : Kurtág, György. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp - Lert). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1120-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

[3] Arnfried Edler : Piano Music, A.IV.3. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, subject part, volume 5 (Kassel - Meiningen). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7618-1106-3 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

[Spangemacher89-4] Friedrich Spangemacher (ed.): György Kurtág (= music of the time. Volume 5). Boosey and Hawkes, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-87090-205-1 , p. 89.

[5] Jürg Stenzl : "Enfant terrible of the silent scene". The composer Andor Losonczy . In: MusikTexte - magazine for new music , issue 151, November 2016, p. 101 f.

[Spangemacher20-6] Friedrich Spangemacher (ed.): György Kurtág (= music of the time. Volume 5). Boosey and Hawkes, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-87090-205-1 , p. 20.