György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti; (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen.
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Kolozsvár (Cluj, Transylvania, Romania). His education was interrupted in 1944 when, as a Jew, he was forced to labor by the Nazis. At the same time his parents, brother, and other relatives were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, his mother being the only survivor. Read Full BioGyörgy Sándor Ligeti; (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen.
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Kolozsvár (Cluj, Transylvania, Romania). His education was interrupted in 1944 when, as a Jew, he was forced to labor by the Nazis. At the same time his parents, brother, and other relatives were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, his mother being the only survivor.
Following the war, Ligeti returned to his studies in Budapest, graduating in 1949. He studied under Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Farkas, Zoltán Kodály, and Sándor Veress. He went on to do ethnomusicological work on Romanian folk music, but after a year returned to his old school in Budapest, this time as a teacher of harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis. However, communications between Hungary and the west had been cut off by the then communist government, and Ligeti had to secretly listen to radio broadcasts to keep abreast of musical developments. In December of 1956, two months after the Hungarian revolution was put down by the Soviet Army, he fled to Vienna and eventually took Austrian citizenship.
Before Ligeti emigrated to the West, his work was limited by political repression and censorship, which restricted access to new musical ideas and discouraged public presentation of experimental music. His publications of those years included only folksong arrangements and music based on Romanian or Hungarian folk music. His arrival in Vienna late in 1956 therefore provided him with fresh opportunities. He was introduced to key figures in the avant-garde of western European music, notably Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Herbert Eimert. Eimert invited Ligeti to join the Electronic Music Studio of Westdeutscher Rundkfunk (West German Radio) in Cologne in 1957, and there Ligeti had the freedom to develop his style, consolidating musical ideas that had begun to emerge in his scores as early as the late 1940s. His electronic composition Artikulation (1958) and the orchestral Apparitions (1958-59), the first pieces in the mature style, attracted critical attention, and the premiere of Apparitions at the ISCM Festival in 1960 launched his international career.
The success of Apparitions was confirmed by Atmosphères (1961) and the organ work Volumina (1961-62), making clear that Ligeti was forging for Western music a powerful alternative to post-Webern serialism. A key feature of his style was the use of extraordinarily dense polyphony, which he called “micropolyphony” -- complexes of musical color and texture so rich and intense that they virtually dissolved the distinctions of melody, harmony and rhythm. At the same time, Ligeti experimented with a coloristic language that was no less polyphonic but was built on the kaleidoscopic use of articulate speech sounds and inflections, as heard in Aventures (1962) and Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65). His music throughout the 1960s relied on one or both of these contrasting techniques. In the later 60s Ligeti injected a renewed contrapuntal complexity into his work, beginning with Requiem (1963-65) and Lux aeterna (1966). Requiem made a powerful impression at its Stockholm premiere in 1965, and it went on to win the Bonn Beethoven Prize in 1967. The Cello Concerto (1966) is closely related to Lux aeterna (itself a reflection of Requiem) in sound and design -- a combination of dazzling intricacy and the most lucid of musical images. Two years after its premiere, Lux aeterna -- along with Atmosphères and Requiem -- reached a mass audience when an excerpt from the score was used on the soundtrack and the best-selling soundtrack recording of the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In the 1970s, Ligeti’s writing became more transparent, even melodic, though in a highly personal, elusive manner. The flickering melodic shapes of Melodien (1971) seem to be a step ahead of the listener’s ear, and, in later works, he transforms the idea of melody and harmonic structure through the use of micro-intervals and deviations from the tempered scale.
As early as Ramifications (1968-69), Ligeti wrote for two string ensembles that had been tuned a quarter-tone apart.
Wit and satire color the composer’s later work as well, occassionally with scathing results. The work 0’00”, perhaps the shortest known composition, pokes fun at John Cage’s 4’33”. In a similar vein, The Future of Music (1961), for non-speaking lecturer and audience, ridicules the idea of performance art and, at the same time, questions the nature of musical communication. The opera Le Grand Macabre (S2K 62312), premiered in Stockholm in 1978, is suffused with dark comedy, though in general the opera relates an ominous tale.
Ligeti’s ever-evolving style shifted again in the 1980s, when he left behind the static structures of his earlier works and began working with dynamic polyrhythmic techniques. The Piano Concerto (1985-88) is typical of this period -- the composer himself considers it his most complex and difficult score, but it immediately disarms the listener.
After 1956 Ligeti lived in Germany and then Austria, where he became a citizen in 1967. For many years he was a visiting professor of composition at the Stockholm Academy of Music, and from 1973 until 1989 he served as professor of composition at the Hamburg Music Academy. In 1972 he spent a year as a visiting professor and composer-in-residence at Stanford University.
Works:
Opera
_ Aventures (1962)
_ Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65)
_ Le Grand Macabre (1975-77, second version 1996)
Orchestral
_ Concert românesc (Romanian Concert) (1951)
_ Apparitions (1958-59)
_ Atmosphères (1961)
_ Lontano (1967)
_ Ramifications, for string orchestra or 12 solo strings (1968-69)
_ Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists (1969-70)
_ Melodien (1971)
_ San Francisco Polyphony (1973-74)
Concertante
_ Cello Concerto (1966)
_ Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra (1972)
_ Piano Concerto (1985-88)
_ Violin Concerto (1992)
_ Hamburg Concerto, for Horn and Chamber Orchestra with 4 Obligato Natural Horns (1998-99, revised 2003)
Vocal/Choral
_ Requiem, for Soprano and Mezzo Soprano solo, mixed Chorus and Orchestra (1963-65)
_ Lux Aeterna, for 16 solo voices (1966)
_ Clocks and Clouds, for 12 female voices (1973)
_ Nonsense madrigals, for 6 male voices (1988-1993)
_ Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000)
Chamber/Instrumental
_ Sonate, for solo cello (1948/1953)
_ Andante and Allegro, for string quartet (1950)
_ Balad_ _i joc (Ballad and Dance), for two violins (1950)
_ Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953)
_ String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953-54)
_ String Quartet No. 2 (1968)
_ Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)
_ Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)
_ Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg, for violin and cello (1982)
_ Sonata for Solo Viola (1991-94)
Keyboard
Piano
_ Induló (March), four-hands (1942)
_ Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude), four-hands (1943)
_ Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947)
_ Invention (1948)
_ Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances), four-hands (1950)
_ Sonatina, four-hands (1950)
_ Musica ricercata (1951-1953)
_ Trois Bagatelles (1961)
_ Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976)
_ Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985)
_ Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988-94)
_ Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes (1995-2001)
Organ
_ Ricercare - Ommagio a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1951)
_ Volumina (1961-62, revised 1966)
_ Two Studies for Organ (1967, 1969)
Harpsichord
_ Continuum (1968)
_ Passacaglia ungherese (1978)
_ Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978)
Electronic
_ Glissandi, electronic music (1957)
_ Artikulation, electronic music (1958)
Miscellaneous
_ Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962)
Awards
_ Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (Etudes for Piano) (1986)
_ Schock Prize for Musical Arts (1995)
_ Wolf Prize, Israel (1996)
_ Kyoto Award (2001)
_ Kossuth Price, Hungary (2003)
_ Polar Music Prize (2004)
Due to a misspelling of his name, he has TWO different profiles on Last.FM.
See http://www.last.fm/music/Gyorgi+Ligeti/
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Kolozsvár (Cluj, Transylvania, Romania). His education was interrupted in 1944 when, as a Jew, he was forced to labor by the Nazis. At the same time his parents, brother, and other relatives were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, his mother being the only survivor. Read Full BioGyörgy Sándor Ligeti; (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen.
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Kolozsvár (Cluj, Transylvania, Romania). His education was interrupted in 1944 when, as a Jew, he was forced to labor by the Nazis. At the same time his parents, brother, and other relatives were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, his mother being the only survivor.
Following the war, Ligeti returned to his studies in Budapest, graduating in 1949. He studied under Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Farkas, Zoltán Kodály, and Sándor Veress. He went on to do ethnomusicological work on Romanian folk music, but after a year returned to his old school in Budapest, this time as a teacher of harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis. However, communications between Hungary and the west had been cut off by the then communist government, and Ligeti had to secretly listen to radio broadcasts to keep abreast of musical developments. In December of 1956, two months after the Hungarian revolution was put down by the Soviet Army, he fled to Vienna and eventually took Austrian citizenship.
Before Ligeti emigrated to the West, his work was limited by political repression and censorship, which restricted access to new musical ideas and discouraged public presentation of experimental music. His publications of those years included only folksong arrangements and music based on Romanian or Hungarian folk music. His arrival in Vienna late in 1956 therefore provided him with fresh opportunities. He was introduced to key figures in the avant-garde of western European music, notably Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Herbert Eimert. Eimert invited Ligeti to join the Electronic Music Studio of Westdeutscher Rundkfunk (West German Radio) in Cologne in 1957, and there Ligeti had the freedom to develop his style, consolidating musical ideas that had begun to emerge in his scores as early as the late 1940s. His electronic composition Artikulation (1958) and the orchestral Apparitions (1958-59), the first pieces in the mature style, attracted critical attention, and the premiere of Apparitions at the ISCM Festival in 1960 launched his international career.
The success of Apparitions was confirmed by Atmosphères (1961) and the organ work Volumina (1961-62), making clear that Ligeti was forging for Western music a powerful alternative to post-Webern serialism. A key feature of his style was the use of extraordinarily dense polyphony, which he called “micropolyphony” -- complexes of musical color and texture so rich and intense that they virtually dissolved the distinctions of melody, harmony and rhythm. At the same time, Ligeti experimented with a coloristic language that was no less polyphonic but was built on the kaleidoscopic use of articulate speech sounds and inflections, as heard in Aventures (1962) and Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65). His music throughout the 1960s relied on one or both of these contrasting techniques. In the later 60s Ligeti injected a renewed contrapuntal complexity into his work, beginning with Requiem (1963-65) and Lux aeterna (1966). Requiem made a powerful impression at its Stockholm premiere in 1965, and it went on to win the Bonn Beethoven Prize in 1967. The Cello Concerto (1966) is closely related to Lux aeterna (itself a reflection of Requiem) in sound and design -- a combination of dazzling intricacy and the most lucid of musical images. Two years after its premiere, Lux aeterna -- along with Atmosphères and Requiem -- reached a mass audience when an excerpt from the score was used on the soundtrack and the best-selling soundtrack recording of the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In the 1970s, Ligeti’s writing became more transparent, even melodic, though in a highly personal, elusive manner. The flickering melodic shapes of Melodien (1971) seem to be a step ahead of the listener’s ear, and, in later works, he transforms the idea of melody and harmonic structure through the use of micro-intervals and deviations from the tempered scale.
As early as Ramifications (1968-69), Ligeti wrote for two string ensembles that had been tuned a quarter-tone apart.
Wit and satire color the composer’s later work as well, occassionally with scathing results. The work 0’00”, perhaps the shortest known composition, pokes fun at John Cage’s 4’33”. In a similar vein, The Future of Music (1961), for non-speaking lecturer and audience, ridicules the idea of performance art and, at the same time, questions the nature of musical communication. The opera Le Grand Macabre (S2K 62312), premiered in Stockholm in 1978, is suffused with dark comedy, though in general the opera relates an ominous tale.
Ligeti’s ever-evolving style shifted again in the 1980s, when he left behind the static structures of his earlier works and began working with dynamic polyrhythmic techniques. The Piano Concerto (1985-88) is typical of this period -- the composer himself considers it his most complex and difficult score, but it immediately disarms the listener.
After 1956 Ligeti lived in Germany and then Austria, where he became a citizen in 1967. For many years he was a visiting professor of composition at the Stockholm Academy of Music, and from 1973 until 1989 he served as professor of composition at the Hamburg Music Academy. In 1972 he spent a year as a visiting professor and composer-in-residence at Stanford University.
Works:
Opera
_ Aventures (1962)
_ Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65)
_ Le Grand Macabre (1975-77, second version 1996)
Orchestral
_ Concert românesc (Romanian Concert) (1951)
_ Apparitions (1958-59)
_ Atmosphères (1961)
_ Lontano (1967)
_ Ramifications, for string orchestra or 12 solo strings (1968-69)
_ Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists (1969-70)
_ Melodien (1971)
_ San Francisco Polyphony (1973-74)
Concertante
_ Cello Concerto (1966)
_ Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra (1972)
_ Piano Concerto (1985-88)
_ Violin Concerto (1992)
_ Hamburg Concerto, for Horn and Chamber Orchestra with 4 Obligato Natural Horns (1998-99, revised 2003)
Vocal/Choral
_ Requiem, for Soprano and Mezzo Soprano solo, mixed Chorus and Orchestra (1963-65)
_ Lux Aeterna, for 16 solo voices (1966)
_ Clocks and Clouds, for 12 female voices (1973)
_ Nonsense madrigals, for 6 male voices (1988-1993)
_ Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000)
Chamber/Instrumental
_ Sonate, for solo cello (1948/1953)
_ Andante and Allegro, for string quartet (1950)
_ Balad_ _i joc (Ballad and Dance), for two violins (1950)
_ Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953)
_ String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953-54)
_ String Quartet No. 2 (1968)
_ Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)
_ Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)
_ Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg, for violin and cello (1982)
_ Sonata for Solo Viola (1991-94)
Keyboard
Piano
_ Induló (March), four-hands (1942)
_ Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude), four-hands (1943)
_ Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947)
_ Invention (1948)
_ Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances), four-hands (1950)
_ Sonatina, four-hands (1950)
_ Musica ricercata (1951-1953)
_ Trois Bagatelles (1961)
_ Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976)
_ Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985)
_ Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988-94)
_ Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes (1995-2001)
Organ
_ Ricercare - Ommagio a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1951)
_ Volumina (1961-62, revised 1966)
_ Two Studies for Organ (1967, 1969)
Harpsichord
_ Continuum (1968)
_ Passacaglia ungherese (1978)
_ Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978)
Electronic
_ Glissandi, electronic music (1957)
_ Artikulation, electronic music (1958)
Miscellaneous
_ Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962)
Awards
_ Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (Etudes for Piano) (1986)
_ Schock Prize for Musical Arts (1995)
_ Wolf Prize, Israel (1996)
_ Kyoto Award (2001)
_ Kossuth Price, Hungary (2003)
_ Polar Music Prize (2004)
Due to a misspelling of his name, he has TWO different profiles on Last.FM.
See http://www.last.fm/music/Gyorgi+Ligeti/
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Lontano
by György Ligeti
We have lyrics for 'Lontano' by these artists:
Adamo Lontano troverai l'amore che credevi non ci fosse piú Lonta…
Alessio Caraturo Lontano... lontano... lontano...…
Argine Aseno Gertzuilolloewwe fert, bert, j Xxr or von goe bretilo.…
Cortes Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu senza la…
Ely Guerra Uno espera lo que ve cuando niño y lo que…
francesca michielin Io sento e quello che non dico lo penso Qualcosa che…
Gardar Thor Cortes Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu senza la…
Huga Flame Hey.. Buongiorno principessa come stai? ti ho lasciato u…
La Crus E dentro le pieghe del mondo C'è un uomo che va Con…
Modena City Ramblers In questa notte fredda la luna non mi aiuta La…
Nomadi Lontano, piano il tempo, pensieri a metà Sul soffitto macch…
Pago (P. Settembre – C. Palmas) Ecco il suono che mi sveg…
Paolo Vallesi P. Vallesi/B. Dati/G. Salvadori Ti ricordo da lontano e non…
Patty Pravo E' lontano Il posto dove sei tu Allora provo a inventarmi …
Sud Sound System Nandu Popu Guardo il sole, sta nascendo! Lascia ombre lun…
Valerio Scanu Adesso parli di me ti nascondi le lacrime e poi le leggo…
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by György Ligeti
We have lyrics for 'Lontano' by these artists:
Adamo Lontano troverai l'amore che credevi non ci fosse piú Lonta…
Alessio Caraturo Lontano... lontano... lontano...…
Argine Aseno Gertzuilolloewwe fert, bert, j Xxr or von goe bretilo.…
Cortes Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu senza la…
Ely Guerra Uno espera lo que ve cuando niño y lo que…
francesca michielin Io sento e quello che non dico lo penso Qualcosa che…
Gardar Thor Cortes Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu cosi lontano Mai piu senza la…
Huga Flame Hey.. Buongiorno principessa come stai? ti ho lasciato u…
La Crus E dentro le pieghe del mondo C'è un uomo che va Con…
Modena City Ramblers In questa notte fredda la luna non mi aiuta La…
Nomadi Lontano, piano il tempo, pensieri a metà Sul soffitto macch…
Pago (P. Settembre – C. Palmas) Ecco il suono che mi sveg…
Paolo Vallesi P. Vallesi/B. Dati/G. Salvadori Ti ricordo da lontano e non…
Patty Pravo E' lontano Il posto dove sei tu Allora provo a inventarmi …
Sud Sound System Nandu Popu Guardo il sole, sta nascendo! Lascia ombre lun…
Valerio Scanu Adesso parli di me ti nascondi le lacrime e poi le leggo…
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MGH cnsGABA
I love Ligeti. I enjoy Ligeti. I could hear Ligeti all day.
Flashing forbodeances of the golden dwarf city
You really Liget it don´t you?
Sherlock Holmes lives.
Me too!
Cody Fox
It's weird how a lot of modern classical music sounds random, but actually is more complex than most forms of music.
Reptile estrin
@Barack obama care one of the funniest comments I've ever seen
WDSKMusic
@Barack obama care Finally someone said it out loud.
Barack obama care
No making bad music then considerate it good because it's new is absurd music should be pleasant to hear . I must admit that this piece is not that bad but it's not the best thing i've ever heard . Modern classical music is just bad in my opinion.
Daníel Sigurðsson
@Kima Moore I find myself inclined to agree, although chance music was kind of a big deal in classical music in the 50's and 60's... maybe still is, I'm not paying enough attention to what's happening nowadays. Ligeti himself claimed that the whole twelve-tone method of composing was also essentially random since the strict adherence to the serial system has removed any predictability from the music, and it's unclear whether the composers actually knew how it would sound. Incidentally I've never really gotten into those types of music.
Kima Moore
:) Wonderful statement on this. In fact I would add that randomness in music which is sort of achieved in computer generated music is utterly boring and conveys hardly anything besides this seeming random order of notes. Creativity needs a driving force, and that force emanates from a decision, no matter how minute. I don't think randomness in human creativity is possible, whether it's a bucket of paint splashing all over the canvas, All improvisational decisions are based in response to a feeling or to what you hear from your fellow musicians. In modern classical what I find is that composers are highly systematized and organized in how they compose, and if anything, very little, or none, is left to chance.
WMFilms
2:40 Jack's face slowly slipping into madness