Gyorgy Ligeti

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One of the world's best known living composers, Gyoergy Sandor Ligeti is widely acknowledged as the most influential and admired creative figure of the late twentieth century. His brilliantly conceived and challenging pieces, searingly intense at times and full of humor and irony at others, include the orchestral Apparitions and Atmospheres, piano etudes, the opera Le Grand Macabre, and the unaccompanied choral work Lux aeterna, which Stanly Kubrick actually pirated for the film...
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Overview

One of the world's best known living composers, Gyoergy Sandor Ligeti is widely acknowledged as the most influential and admired creative figure of the late twentieth century. His brilliantly conceived and challenging pieces, searingly intense at times and full of humor and irony at others, include the orchestral Apparitions and Atmospheres, piano etudes, the opera Le Grand Macabre, and the unaccompanied choral work Lux aeterna, which Stanly Kubrick actually pirated for the film soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In this book, Richard Steinitz fuses biographical, stylistic, and technical analysis to examine thoroughly the evolution of Ligeti's innovative music. Drawing extensively on his own private conversations with the composer as well as on many published and recorded interviews, Steinitz places Ligeti's extraordinary body of work within the context of his complex personal life.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781555535513
  • Publisher: University Press of New England
  • Publication date: 3/20/2003
  • Pages: 456
  • Sales rank: 1,084,792
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.13 (d)

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Richard Steinitz is a composer and Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield. He is the founder and former Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He lives in England.
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Pt. 1 From East to West
1 The Making of the Man 3
2 Night and Morning: An East European Apprenticeship 37
3 Catching Up 72
4 The Watershed of 1960: International Debut 96
Pt. 2 Fantasy and Technique
5 Distorting Mirrors: Humour and Antilogic 117
6 Distance and Enchantment 140
7 A Gestural Kaleidoscope 167
8 Spider's Web: The Labyrinth of Melodies 179
9 Dis(c)loc(k)ation and Transformation 196
Pt. 3 The Grand Illusionist
10 Alice in Breughelland: A Grotesque Carnival of Sex and Death 217
11 In the midst of life ... 244
12 The Dynamics of Disorder 266
13 The Piano Etudes 277
14 Curiouser and curiouser 315
15 On (Not) Writing Opera 341
Notes 365
App Productions of Le Grand Macabre 378
Glossary 381
Chronological list of works 387
Bibliography 393
Discography 405
Index 411
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