Budapest: György Kurtág, Ivan Fischer and Márta Sebestyén

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Dec 12, 202344:19Society & Culture

Kate Molleson travels to Budapest to meet Hungary’s greatest living composer, György Kurtág, now 97 years old. Kurtag talks to Kate about the musical homages that he has made to friends, his early focus on the clarity of...

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