The great Hungarian composer György Kurtág plays a Mozart adagio in memory of his beloved wife Marta, who died a year ago this weekend.
Kurtág is 94.
This is the picture of them in October 2018 at the same piano, playing four-hand.
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One of my fondest musical memories is of a concert in the Liszt Academy great hall, celebrating Ligeti’s 80th birthday (if I recall the number correctly), at which Marta and Gyorgy Kurtag performed some of the Jatekok (Games) and Bach transcriptions. One of the Games was immensely touching: the two played a simple melody, one pitch at a time, but where each had to reach across, or around in back of, the other for a key, or loop their arm over or under the other’s; their coordinated, slow reaching and swaying was the loveliest dancelike depiction of marital mutuality and concord.
That sounds absolutely lovely, Peter.
Do you know if there’s a video of the performance?
Touching.
(And played with exquisite sensibility!)
Very moving.
“Marts”?