Intro
Hungarian composer
Record Labels
Awards Received
Kossuth Prize
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
Ferenc Erkel Prize
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Béla Bartók - Ditta Pásztory Award
Meritorius Artist of Hungary
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary
Haztörekvés m-díj
Herder Prize
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Grawemeyer Award
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Wihuri Sibelius Prize
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Kossuth Prize
Ferenc Erkel Prize
Ferenc Erkel Prize
Member of, past and present

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Academy of Arts, Berlin

Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

György Kurtág in 2014

György Kurtág (Hungarian: [ˈɟørɟ ˈkurtaːɡ]; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian classical composer and pianist. He was an academic teacher of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1967, later also of chamber music, and taught until 1993.