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György Kurtág, an Uncommon card
György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 153
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 50,000
Power 153 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
György Kurtág quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the György Kurtág card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 2023 he was described as "one of the last living links to the ______ postwar composers of the European avant-garde".
Answer
defining. In 2023 he was described as "one of the last living links to the defining postwar composers of the European avant-garde". From the György Kurtág article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Joan Sutherland. Joan Sutherland 81 · L'Arlésienne 78 · György Kurtág 75 · Buddy film 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Buddy film. Buddy film 67,000 · György Kurtág 50,000 · Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis 37,000 · L'Arlésienne 29,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- According to Grove Music Online, his style draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky", and "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".
- Kurtág was an academic teacher of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1967, later also of chamber music, and taught until 1993.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The György Kurtág article was read about 50,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get György Kurtág
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, György Kurtág (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lenke Szilágyi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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