Kurtág's compositions are often made up of many very brief movements. "Kafka-Fragments", for instance, is an approximately 55-minute song cycle for soprano and solo violin made up of 40 short movements, setting extracts from Franz Kafka's writings, diaries, and letters. Music journalist Tom Service wrote that Kurtág's music "… involved reducing music to the level of the fragment, the moment, with individual pieces or movements lasting mere seconds, or a minute, perhaps two." Most extreme of all, his piano piece "Flowers We Are, Mere Flowers" from the eighth volume of "Játékok" ("Games") consists of just seven notes. Because of this interest in miniatures, Kurtág's music is often compared to that of Anton Webern.