Gyorgy Ligeti
Gyorgy Ligeti
György Sándor Ligetiwas a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time"...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth28 May 1923
budapest paris
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
allegory bank fairy father socialist utopian wrote
My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.
writing decided knows
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
firsts listening-to-music
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
use old-music
I don't use old music.
artist grandfather musician
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
years long people
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
october january labor
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
simple play piano
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
book london wonderland
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
dream new-york rocks
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock
men emotional
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
budapest study refugee-camps
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
communist nazi
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.