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Hommage à Kurtág

Composer
Eötvös Péter / Jeney Zoltán / Kocsis Zoltán / Sáry László / Vidovszky László
Original / Hungarian title
Hommage à Kurtág
Foreign language / English title
Hommage à Kurtág
Subtitle
For chamber ensemble and tape
Dedication
to György Kurtág
Year of composition
1975
Type
Live and tape music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
arm., fl., cor.ing., perc., wind imitation - cemb., cimb., chit., tam-tam, tape - 2 prepared pf. - ring-modulator - org., marimba, pf. - choir di vl. ossia org. - strings
Duration
30 min
Premiere information
27 December 1975, Budapest; New Music Studio: Péter Eötvös (arm.), István Matúz (fl.), László Hadady (c.ing.), László Vidovszky (perc.), Zoltán Jeney (cemb.), Márta Fábián (cimb.), György Kurtág Jr. (chit.), László Sáry (tam-tam), Barnabás Dukay (org.), Gábor Kósa (marimba), András Wilheim (pf.), Zoltán Kocsis (org.), Pi-Hsien Chen (pf.), Gábor Kemény (pf.), String Ensemble of the New Music Studio Budapest, László Dobszay (cond.), György Erki (sound-controll)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
BMC CD 116, 2005 - Ensemble of New Music Studio (Live recording of the premeire, 1974)
1 min. sample
1 Hommage à Kurtág
Remarks, other info
Joint composition by Péter Eötvös, Zoltán Jeney, László Sáry, László Vidovszky and Zoltán Kocsis

See also version for 4 pianos and tape: Hommage à Kurtág
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Joint works of contemporary Hungarian composers from the 1970's BMC Records