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
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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.
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I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
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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.
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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
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There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
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When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
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New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock
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I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
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I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
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If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.