Balint andras varga biography of rory

Bálint  András Varga, author of four widely hailed books for the University of Rochester Press, died on New Year’s Eve 2019. A few years ago, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross called this quiet, attentive man “one of the great listeners in the recent history of music” for his keen musical responsiveness and his ability to elicit startling confessions from movers and shakers in our musical world.

Bálint András Varga (born in 1941) was one of the University of Rochester Press’s most prolific and admired authors.

We published four of his books, which focus almost entirely on the challenges that serious composers of concert music and opera have faced in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

I was delighted when Bálint brought his first manuscript to us. It consisted of comments by the great Hungarian-Jewish composer György Kurtág (b.

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1926) on his own music and that of his slightly older contemporary (from a similar background) György Ligeti. The book came out Lutosławski Profile - BálintAndrás Varga, Witold Lutosławski ... DUZO