# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gyorgy-kurtag
# Generated: 2026-08-15T23:21:09.570Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gyorgy-kurtag"
name: "György Kurtág"
slug: "gyorgy-kurtag"
description: "György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to Grove Music Online, his style draws on \"Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky\", and \"his work is characterized by compression in scale and forces, and by a particular immediacy of expression\". In 2023 he was described as \"one of the last living links to the defining postwar composers of the European avant-garde\"."
tagline: "Hungarian composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt%C3%A1g_Gy%C3%B6rgy.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1926-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.147281486579491
  historical:           23.434792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump