Paris, France and Budapest, Hungary
Born 1926, Lugos, Romania
1957-58 Studies with Marianne Stein, Darius Milhaud, and Oliver Messiaen, Paris.
1946-55 Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. Studies in composition with Sandor Veress and Ferenc Farkas, piano with Pal Kadosa and chamber music with Leo Weiner.
1999-2001 Visiting Professor, Paris Conservatory
1996 Honorary Professor, Royal Conservatory of the Hague
1960-68 Retiteur of soloists, Hungarian National Philharmonia
1967 Professor, Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
1994 Stele, op. 33 for Large Orchestra.
1991 Samuel Beckett: What Is the Word, op. 30b, for alto solo, vocal ensemble and chamber ensemble dispersed in space.
1988-89 Officium Breve in Memorium Andreae Szervenszky, op. 28, for string quartet
1987-88 ...Quasi una Fantasia...,, op. 27, no. 1, for piano and groups of instruments dispersed in space
1997 J'tekok/Games, Marta and Gyorgy Kurtag, piano, ECM, CD; awarded "Critic's Choice," Gramophone, 1998
1996 Music for String Instruments, Keller Quartet, ECM, CD; Gyorgy Kurtag, Miklos Perenyi, ECM, CD
1995 Hommage a R. Sch. (Robert Schumann), Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin, Eduard Brunner, EMI, CD
1994 Kurtag--Portrait Concert Salzburg 1993, Col Legno, WWE, 31870, 2 CD
1992 Kafka--Fragments, Adrienne Csengery, Andres Keller, Hungarotron HCD 31135
1990 Works by Gyorgy Kurtag, Hungarotron, HCD 31290
1983 Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova op. 17, to twenty-one poems by Rimma Dalos, for soprano and chamber ensemble, Adrienne Csengery, Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez, conductor, Erato-Stu 71543
2001 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1993-95 Composer-in-Residence, Berlin Philharmonic
1996, 1973 Kossuth Prize, State of Hungary
1994 Austrian State Award for European Composers
1994 Denis de Rougemont Prize, European Association of Festivals
1993 Herder Prize, Freiherr-vom-Stein Stiftung, Hamburg
1993 Premio Feltrinelli, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome
1987 Member, Bavarian Akademie der Schonen Kunste, Munich
1987 Member, Akadmie der Kunste, Berlin
1985 Offiier de l'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, France
