came to the end of the world. Since no one knows when he or she is to die, we are encouraged to live merrily until then. Personalities | György Ligeti | Modern Era | Opera ...
(Jörd’ji Le-get’-e) 1923–2006 Hungarian composer Because of the disruption of World War II and the subsequent Communist regime in Hungary, Ligeti did not become aware of Western European musical modernism until he was over 30. Until then he wrote in the folk-song-based, Bartók-influenced style that was officially approved in his country. He left Hungary during the 1956 uprising, ...
1923–2006, Romanian An Eastern European exile whose family was executed by the Nazis during the Second World War, Ligeti was a composer with a neo-Dadaist penchant for the absurd, and a musical style that varied wildly from one piece to another as each work became a world unto itself. While in Germany, Ligeti acquainted himself with the ...
Bohuslav Martino (1890–1959), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Carl Orff (1895–1982), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), and later, Luciano Berio (1925–2003), Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), Elliott Carter (b. 1908) and György Ligeti (b. 1923). Introduction | Keyboards Instruments | Clavichord | Keyboards ...
eighteenth century. Aside from the famous concertos by Mozart, there are works by Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), Beethoven, Haydn, Strauss, Oliver Knussen (b. 1952), György Ligeti (b. 1923) and Britten. One of the horn’s most striking characteristics is its timbral variety. It is a great partner for the voice, as well as being able to ...
Sound effects and instruments trouvés include found objects and specialist machines for making noises. Composers have made extensive use of both sound effects and found objects in orchestral music, especially in music for theatre, dance and opera. Sound Effects The wind machine was originally a theatrical sound effect, and is a cylinder of wooden slats with a canvas ...
Of the woodwind instruments, the oboe has experienced perhaps the most organic development. There is no single, revolutionary moment at which the oboe became a modern instrument, and it retains strong links with the past both in sound and design. Shawm The modern oboe is a direct descendant of the shawm and the hautboy. The shawm was a ...
the sounds of the modern urban world. His music takes a sound world derived from factories and industrialization and turns them into music. But it took the off-beat genius of Ligeti to compose a work entirely for special effects: his Poème symphonique (1962) has passed into musical folklore as the piece of music written for 100 wind-up metronomes that tick away ...
, classical music, like Western society, has never managed to wholly divorce itself from the influence of the Western church. Secular composers such as Igor Stravinsky and György Ligeti have reserved some of their greatest utterances for religious forms such as the requiem mass, a genre that stretches back to the Middle Ages. The original task of finding ...
generate atmosphere and considerable dramatic tension. Recommended Recording: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, South-West German Radio SO (cond) Sylvain Cambreling (ECM) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | György Ligeti | Contemporary | Classical ...
In later life, she inspired the creation of the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara, California. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | György Ligeti | Modern Era | Opera Houses & Companies | The Birth of the Metropolitan Opera | Turn of the Century | Opera ...
but was largely self-taught as a composer. He worked as a pianist and conductor at the Teatro Colón from 1949. In 1957 he moved to Cologne, where he encountered Ligeti and Stockhausen; he taught for many years at the Darmstadt summer schools. A number of his pieces employ theatrical elements: Sur scène (1958–60) involves a speaker, a singer and ...
including Terry Riley (b. 1935) and Philip Glass (b. 1937), whose musical language is based on repetitive melodic or rhythmic elements. The discovery of African music led Hungarian composer György Ligeti (b. 1923), formerly Bartókian in manner, to take his work in new directions. Désordre (‘Disorder’) (1985), from his first book of études for solo piano, achieves a fascinating ...
(1883–1945). But they soon became one of the most important platforms for the rising avant-garde generation, not only its composers – Boulez, Stockhausen, Nono, Pousseur, Ligeti and Kagel – but also its virtuoso performers, including the oboist Heinz Holliger (b. 1939), also a composer, the cellist Siegfried Palm (1927–2005) and the piano duo of ...
(1951) took its neo-classical style from Mozartian models; Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) ventured into completely uncharted territory, employing a grand scheme that had previously never been heard in opera; György Ligeti (1923–2006), dismissing formal structures, opted for a chaotic world of sound; and Mauricio Kagel’s (1931–2008) performance art created ‘anti-opera’ in Sur Scène (1962), which would evolve into his deconstruction ...
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