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    György Sándor Ligeti (/ˈlɪɡəti/; Hungarian: [ˈliɡɛti ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical...
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    This is a list of compositions by György Ligeti. Concert românesc (1951) Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm (1966) Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists...
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    The Hungarian composer György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001. They are considered one of the major creative...
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    Lux Aeterna is a piece for a 16-part mixed choir, written by György Ligeti in 1966. It is most famous for its use in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001:...
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  • The Requiem by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition, composed between 1963 and 1965. The work lasts...
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    Atmosphères (category Compositions by György Ligeti)
    Atmosphères is a piece for orchestra, composed by György Ligeti in 1961. It is noted for eschewing conventional melody and metre in favor of dense sound...
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    The Sonata for Solo Cello is an unaccompanied cello sonata written by György Ligeti between 1948 and 1953. The piece was initially received poorly by the...
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  • Waltz, Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, and György Ligeti's Atmosphères. The soundtrack has been re-issued multiple times, including...
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  • Notation". Kirzinger, Robert. "György Ligeti – Cello Concerto". allmusic. Retrieved 12 December 2018. "György Ligeti – Études for Piano (Book 2), No...
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  • classical music, such as that of Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, John Cage, Ingram Marshall, and Max Richter. In 1954, U.S. Marshal...
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    Le Grand Macabre (category Operas by György Ligeti)
    1996) is the third and only major stage-work by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, following his Absurdist sung "mimodramas" Aventures (compl. 1962) and...
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    The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by György Ligeti is a violin concerto written for and dedicated to the violinist Saschko Gawriloff. A performance...
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  • Eva Ligeti (born 1950), Canadian lawyer and the first Environmental Commissioner of Ontario György Ligeti (1923–2006), Hungarian composer Lajos Ligeti (1902–1987)...
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  • Poème symphonique (category Compositions by György Ligeti)
    Poème symphonique is a 1962 composition by György Ligeti for one hundred mechanical metronomes. It was written during his brief acquaintance with the...
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  • György Ligeti (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟørɟ ˈliɡɛti]; born 19 December 1973) is a Hungarian indie musician, record producer, best known as the lead...
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  • Artikulation is an electronic composition by György Ligeti. Composed and notated in January and February 1958, the piece was prepared and recorded on...
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  • Micropolyphony is a kind of polyphonic musical texture developed by György Ligeti, which consists of many lines of dense canons moving at different tempos...
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    for Violin, Horn and Piano by György Ligeti was completed in 1982. The piece was a turning point in Ligeti’s career. Ligeti had composed little since he...
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    of Music, where he met his wife, Márta Kinsker, as well as composer György Ligeti, who became a close friend. His piano teacher at the academy was Pál...
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  • Phil Keaggy, Wes King, and Scott Dente Invention (Ligeti), a 1948 piano composition by György Ligeti Inventions (album), a 1965 album by Sandy Bull Inventions...
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  • György (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟørɟ]) is a Hungarian version of the name George. Some notable people with this given name: György Alexits, as a Hungarian...
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    The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by György Ligeti is a five-movement piano concerto. Ligeti wrote: I present my artistic credo in the Piano Concerto:...
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    Thomas Adès, Henri Dutilleux and György Ligeti, and recital works by Brett Dean, Stephen Hartke, David Lang, György Kurtag, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson...
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    liner). György Ligeti. Deutsche Grammophon. 474327-2. Ligeti, György (1996). György Ligeti Edition Vol. 1 – String Quartets and Duets (CD liner). György Ligeti...
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  • Musica ricercata (category Compositions by György Ligeti)
    Musica ricercata is a set of eleven pieces for piano by György Ligeti. The work was composed from 1951 to 1953, shortly after the composer began lecturing...
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  • including Syzygys: Complete Studio Recordings (2003, Tzadik #7240). György Ligeti was interested in their music, and he mentions their track "Fauna Grotesque"...
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    and thirteenth piano études of György Ligeti. One of his most notable recordings is that of the first two books of Ligeti's piano études. He has also performed...
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    and studied composition at Seoul National University as well as with György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The recipient of numerous...
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  • composers have continued to write concertos, including Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Dimitri Shostakovich, Philip Glass and James MacMillan among many others...
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    the work of Arnold Schoenberg, Hans Werner Henze, Sofia Gubaidulina, György Ligeti and others. Schoenberg employed it, "unrealistically...accurate bursts...
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