György Kurtág

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".

19 February 1926

Born on the same birth day (19 February): Andries de Graeff • August Schleicher • Bellamy Young • Benicio del Toro • D. J. Wilson • Doug Aldrich • Erin Pizzey • Froben Christoph of Zimmern • Harriet Bosse • Hovhannes Tumanyan • Joacim Cans • Justin Fashanu • Lucio Fontana • Norm O'Neill • Ola Salo • Paul Haarhuis • Russ Nixon • Sam Myers • Saul Chaplin • William B. Provine

Born in the same month (February 1926): Birgitte Reimer • Charles Van Doren • Danny Blanchflower • David H. Hubel • Doris Belack • Fay Ajzenberg-Selove • Henry Molaison • Joe Garagiola • Konstantin Feoktistov • Margot Frank • Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda • Neal Cassady • Paul Bocuse • Richard Matheson • Rolf Brem • Sidney Bryan Berry • Svetlana Alliluyeva • Vivian Maier