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Beckett and Kurtág
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Hungarian composer György Kurtág has completed three significant Beckett-based compositions. Kurtág includes in his works numerous associative references to people, events, ideas, and other music. This treatment of reference and meaning parallels aspects of Beckett's work; a comparative examination of the role of memory in Beckett and Kurtág sheds light upon the work of both. Additionally, the article considers the performative quality of the finding (or remembering) of words in Joseph Chaikin's and Ildikó Monyók's readings of the Beckett and Kurtág versions of , relating this to the discussion of the relationship between reference, memory and meaning.
Title: Beckett and Kurtág
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Hungarian composer György Kurtág has completed three significant Beckett-based compositions.
Kurtág includes in his works numerous associative references to people, events, ideas, and other music.
This treatment of reference and meaning parallels aspects of Beckett's work; a comparative examination of the role of memory in Beckett and Kurtág sheds light upon the work of both.
Additionally, the article considers the performative quality of the finding (or remembering) of words in Joseph Chaikin's and Ildikó Monyók's readings of the Beckett and Kurtág versions of , relating this to the discussion of the relationship between reference, memory and meaning.
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