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1926György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic[†]
György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to Grove Music Online, with a style that draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, 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".
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Magis McAdoo suspends sentence on 48 violators of smoke ordinance
Move for autonomy of Manchuria at conf of provinces convened at Mukden; Soviet alarmed; Moscow press comment
Goes to relief of Amer missionaries besieged at Sinyang
Assails majority report of Sen Com on Aluminum Co of Amer
Dies in Poughkeepsie, N Y; son sought him 36 yrs
Omaha terrorized by sniper (later proved to be he) who shoots through windows; has killed Dr A D Searles and H L McDevitt; believed to be insane
Favors city-wide operation by one co, at 5c fare, at best terms obtainable by city
Report that conferees have compromised on estate tax; Sen Smoot predicts final action on bill very soon
Wets in House shout that they want beer in reply to Repr Blanton's challenge
Luncheons, N Y C