Pdf 22 — Kurtag Stele Score

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Page 22 also exemplifies Kurtág’s use of “negative space.” The silences are not empty; they are heavy with the memory of the first movement’s funeral chorale. The Stele (Greek for “stone slab” or “tombstone”) is dedicated to the memory of the conductor Peter Eötvös’s parents, and on this page, the orchestra sounds like a room full of people trying and failing to say a name. The Agitato is not anger but the tremor of withheld grief – a grief that, by page 22, has shattered into a thousand silent fragments.

refers to ancient upright stone slabs used for commemorative purposes. Movement Breakdown

(Op. 33), composed in 1994, is a pivotal work by Hungarian composer György Kurtág

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