Yitzhak Yedid

YE-DID-BACH (2021)

     Duet for two French horns in F

           hommage a György and Márta Kurtág

 

In YE-DID-BACH I incorporated segments of Bach’s preludes and fugues from the Well-

Tempered Clavier to create integration between various aesthetics and systems of the past

and of our time. In some cases, I re-wrote segments of Bach’s music and in other cases I

made adaptations of longer parts.

YE-DID-BACH is an homage to György and Márta Kurtág because I love how György

Kurtág worked Bach’s material and in particular György Kurtág’s transcriptions for piano 4

hands in Játékok collection, and also, I am deeply moved by listening to recordings of

György and Márta Kurtág playing 4 hands.

Márta was the wife of György Kurtág, with whom she performed for 60 years! They often

played from his collection Játékok.

 

Yitzhak Yedid 

 

 

Acknowledgment 

YE-DID-BACH commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part The ANAM Set (2021) and written for Claudia Leggett and given its world premiere in May 2022 at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. The ANAM Set was funded by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative.