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Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination

Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination

Steinitz, Richard

Hardcover

General Music

ISBN10: 1555535518
ISBN13: 9781555535513
Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
Published: Mar 20 2003
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.83
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.44
Language: English

One of the world's best known living composers, György Sándor 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 Atmosphères, piano études, 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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