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Offers telling insights ... (on the) linkage between teaching and communicating, teaching and composing... Reach(es) to the core of Kurtag's essential expressionism... (Kurtag's) tributes to (Ligeti) provide ... the shrewdest, clearest-eyed judgment of his friend's achievements. Mementos of a friendship ... is as artfully assembled as any of Kurtag's compositions. --MUSICAL TIMES (Arnold Whittall) Like many of Kurtag's finest pieces, (this book) is short but densely packed. In three extended interviews with Varga, the composer provides piercing insights into a vast range of music and addresses his own work with startling clarity, candor, and humility. He also delivers three tributes to his longtime friend Gyorgy Ligeti, revealing more of Ligeti's psychology and creativity than any commentator in print. --THE NEW YORKER (Alex Ross) Read the full review at http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/alexross/2009/10/gyorgy-kurtag.html Kurtag is a very shy volcano. He is either silent or he erupts. We have been seeing each other for fifty years, privately or professionally, but it is thanks to this book that I have come to know him properly. He never or hardly ever gives interviews. What Balint Andras Varga has brought off here is a veritable miracle. No one else could have done it. This book is proof of Kurtag's trust in and appreciation of him. --Peter Eotvos, noted Hungarian conductor and composer An important introduction to the music and the personality of this unique composer. --Pierre Boulez Provides vivid insight into composer Gyorgy Kurtag's creative genius. The special perspective that Balint Varga brings is incomparably sensitive; the cultural roots he shares with Kurtag along with his vast knowledge of music, history, and visual and literary arts offer a brilliant foundation for Kurtag's ideas. Moreover, as former head of promotion for Universal Edition in Vienna, Varga writes with profound awareness of the work of Kurtag's contemporaries. A uniquely sensitive look at Kurtag's extraordinary work, character, and personality. --Kent Nagano, general music director of the Bavarian State Opera and Orchestra and music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Offers telling insights . . . (on the) linkage between teaching and communicating, teaching and composing. . . . Reach(es) to the core of Kurtag's essential expressionism. . . . (Kurtag's) tributes to (Ligeti) provide . . . the shrewdest, clearest-eyed judgment of his friend's achievements. Mementos of a friendship . . . is as artfully assembled as any of Kurtag's compositions. MUSICAL TIMES (Arnold Whittall) Like many of Kurtag's finest pieces, (this book) is short but densely packed. In three extended interviews with Varga, the composer provides piercing insights into a vast range of music and addresses his own work with startling clarity, candor, and humility. He also delivers three tributes to his longtime friend Gyorgy Ligeti, revealing more of Ligeti's psychology and creativity than any commentator in print. THE NEW YORKER (Alex Ross) Read the full review at http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/alexross/2009/10/gyorgy-kurtag.html This book provides a fascinating and unique insight into the life, mind, and personality of the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag (.) this volume surely will play a significant role in enhancing and enlightening the way we experience Kurtag's music, both as listeners and as scholars. MUSIC & LETTERS, May 2011 An important introduction to the music and the personality of this unique composer. --Pierre BoulezBR> A uniquely sensitive look at Kurtag's extraordinary work, character, and personality. --Kent Nagano, General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera and Orchestra and Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

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