Minguet Quartet Remembrance György Kurtág 100

The Minguet Quartet will celebrate the 100th birthday of György Kurtág with two highly expressive works by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

A composer of the century celebrates his 100th birthday: György Kurtág is one of the best-known contemporary composers and has significantly shaped the music of the 20th and 21st centuries with his unique, colorful tonal language. The Minguet Quartet celebrates this exceptional artist with his Officium breve, a twelve-minute miniature consisting of 15 short individual movements. Kurtág composed the work as a 'mini-requiem' for his deceased composer colleague Andreae Szervánsky. The composition is flanked by Mozart's String Quartet No. 15, which shares the key of D minor with works such as his Requiem or the overture to the opera Don Giovanni. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's String Quartet No. 6 in F minor can also be understood as a 'mini-requiem': He dedicated the work to his sister Fanny, who had died shortly before at the age of just 41.