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IMPORTANT WORKS
Apparitions (195859/1960)
Lontano (1967/1967)
Atmosphres (1961/1961)
Requiem (196365/1965)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Beethoven Prize of Bonn (1967)
Berlin Art Prize (Requiem) (1965)
UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (1969)
Berlin Art Prize (1972)
Gyrgy Sndor
Ligeti
(1923-2006)
Transylvania,
Romania
One of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the
XX century
WORKS
Ligeti's earlier works used a technique known as micropolyphony. This is a similar technique to polyphony
but with the main difference that the polyphony is hidden through a dense and rich stack of pitches.
Ligetis music from the last two decades of his life is unmistakable for its rhythmic complexity. Writing about
his first book of Piano Etudes, the composer claims this rhythmic complexity stems from two vastly different
sources of inspiration: the Romantic-era piano music of Chopin and Schumann and the indigenous music of
sub-Saharan Africa. The difference between the earlier and later pieces lies in a new conception of pulse. In
the earlier works, the pulse is something to be divided into two, three and so on. The effect of these different
subdivisions, especially when they occur simultaneously, is to blur the aural landscape, creating the
micropolyphonic effect of Ligetis music.
Studies
1929
1949
World War II
1944
Education interrupted, he was sent to a
forced labor brigade by the Horthy
regime
Brother and parents were sent to
Auschwitz and only his mother was the
only survivor
1956
Fled to Vienna for the violent suppress
of the Hungarian revolution by the
Soviet Army
Few weeks later in Cologne, Germany he met
Stockhausen and Koenig working in electronic music