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György Ligeti
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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. 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 Hung
top songs
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Lontano
44,1582Lux Aeterna
31,3153Continuum
26,9114Sonatina for Piano 4 Hands: II. Andante
23,3135Cello Sonata: I. Dialogo
20,1026Musica ricercata: No. 7, Cantabile, molto legato
17,2537Musica ricercata No. 7 in B-flat major
16,4688VII. Galamb borong
14,9879X. Der Zauberlehrling
14,62910Ligeti : Requiem : II Kyrie
13,810albums
LIGETI: Etudes, Books 1 and 2
The Ligeti Project II (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor Jonathan Nott)
Ligeti Edition 6: Keyboard Works
Ligeti : Project Vol.4 - Hamburg Concerto, Double Concerto, Requiem & Ramifications
György Ligeti Edition, Vol. 6: Keyboard Works
György Ligeti Edition, Vol. 3
Ligeti : Project Vol.2 - Lontano, Atmosphères, Apparitions, San Francisco Polyphony & Concert Românesc
Ligeti: Études; Musica Ricercata
Un Portrait
Ligeti/Beethoven
Ligeti: Violin Concerto, Lontano, Atmosphères & San Francisco Polyphony
Ligeti / Farkas / Veress / Liszt / Dohnanyi / Weiner / Mihaly: Hungarian Cello Music