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A Capella Choral Works (Album) by György Ligeti

Biografie van de kunstenaar György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti May 28 1923 – June 12 2006 Was A Jewish Hungarian Composer Born In Romania Who Later Became An Austrian Citizen. Ligeti Received His Initial Musical Training In The Conservatory At Kolozsvár Cluj Transylvania Romania . His Education Was Interrupted In 1944 When As A Jew He Was Forced To Labor By The Nazis. At The Same Time His Parents Brother And Other Relatives Were Deported To The Auschwitz Concentration Camp His Mother Being The Only Survivor.
Following The War Ligeti Returned To His Studies In Budapest Graduating In 1949. He Studied Under Pál Kadosa Ferenc Farkas Zoltán Kodály And Sándor Veress. He Went On To Do Ethnomusicological Work On Romanian Folk Music But After A Year Returned To His Old School In Budapest This Time As A Teacher Of Harmony Counterpoint And Musical Analysis. However Communications Between Hungary And The West Had Been Cut Off By The Then Communist Government And Ligeti Had To Secretly Listen To Radio Broadcasts To Keep Abreast Of Musical Developments. In December Of 1956 Two Months After The Hungarian Revolution Was Put Down By The Soviet Army He Fled To Vienna And Eventually Took Austrian Citizenship. Before Ligeti Emigrated To The West His Work Was Limited By Political Repression And Censorship Which Restricted Access To New Musical Ideas And Discouraged Public Presentation Of Experimental Music. His Publications Of Those Years Included Only Folksong Arrangements And Music Based On Romanian Or Hungarian Folk Music. His Arrival In Vienna Late In 1956 Therefore Provided Him With Fresh Opportunities. He Was Introduced To Key Figures In The Avant-Garde Of Western European Music Notably Karlheinz Stockhausen Gottfried Michael Koenig And Herbert Eimert. Eimert Invited Ligeti To Join The Electronic Music Studio Of Westdeutscher Rundkfunk West German Radio In Cologne In 1957 And There Ligeti Had The Freedom To Develop His Style Consolidating Musical Ideas That Had Begun To Emerge In His Scores As Early As The Late 1940s. His Electronic Composition Artikulation 1958 And The Orchestral Apparitions 1958-59 The First Pieces In The Mature Style Attracted Critical Attention And The Premiere Of Apparitions At The ISCM Festival In 1960 Launched His International Career.
The Success Of Apparitions Was Confirmed By Atmosphères 1961 And The Organ Work Volumina 1961-62 Making Clear That Ligeti Was Forging For Western Music A Powerful Alternative To Post-Webern Serialism. A Key Feature Of His Style Was The Use Of Extraordinarily Dense Polyphony Which He Called “micropolyphony” -- Complexes Of Musical Color And Texture So Rich And Intense That They Virtually Dissolved The Distinctions Of Melody Harmony And Rhythm. At The Same Time Ligeti Experimented With A Coloristic Language That Was No Less Polyphonic But Was Built On The Kaleidoscopic Use Of Articulate Speech Sounds And Inflections As Heard In Aventures 1962 And Nouvelles Aventures 1962-65 . His Music Throughout The 1960s Relied On One Or Both Of These Contrasting Techniques. In The Later 60s Ligeti Injected A Renewed Contrapuntal Complexity Into His Work Beginning With Requiem 1963-65 And Lux Aeterna 1966 . Requiem Made A Powerful Impression At Its Stockholm Premiere In 1965 And It Went On To Win The Bonn Beethoven Prize In 1967. The Cello Concerto 1966 Is Closely Related To Lux Aeterna Itself A Reflection Of Requiem In Sound And Design -- A Combination Of Dazzling Intricacy And The Most Lucid Of Musical Images. Two Years After Its Premiere Lux Aeterna -- Along With Atmosphères And Requiem -- Reached A Mass Audience When An Excerpt From The Score Was Used On The Soundtrack And The Best-Selling Soundtrack Recording Of The Stanley Kubrick Film 2001 A Space Odyssey. In The 1970s Ligeti’s Writing Became More Transparent Even Melodic Though In A Highly Personal Elusive Manner. The Flickering Melodic Shapes Of Melodien 1971 Seem To Be A Step Ahead Of The Listener’s Ear And In Later Works He Transforms The Idea Of Melody And Harmonic Structure Through The Use Of Micro-Intervals And Deviations From The Tempered Scale. As Early As Ramifications 1968-69 Ligeti Wrote For Two String Ensembles That Had Been Tuned A Quarter-Tone Apart. Wit And Satire Color The Composer’s Later Work As Well Occassionally With Scathing Results. The Work 0’00” Perhaps The Shortest Known Composition Pokes Fun At John Cage’s 4’33”. In A Similar Vein The Future Of Music 1961 For Non-Speaking Lecturer And Audience Ridicules The Idea Of Performance Art And At The Same Time Questions The Nature Of Musical Communication. The Opera Le Grand Macabre S2K 62312 Premiered In Stockholm In 1978 Is Suffused With Dark Comedy Though In General The Opera Relates An Ominous Tale. Ligeti’s Ever-Evolving Style Shifted Again In The 1980s When He Left Behind The Static Structures Of His Earlier Works And Began Working With Dynamic Polyrhythmic Techniques. The Piano Concerto 1985-88 Is Typical Of This Period -- The Composer Himself Considers It His Most Complex And Difficult Score But It Immediately Disarms The Listener. After 1956 Ligeti Lived In Germany And Then Austria Where He Became A Citizen In 1967. For Many Years He Was A Visiting Professor Of Composition At The Stockholm Academy Of Music And From 1973 Until 1989 He Served As Professor Of Composition At The Hamburg Music Academy. In 1972 He Spent A Year As A Visiting Professor And Composer-In-Residence At Stanford University. Works Opera
_ Aventures 1962 _ Nouvelles Aventures 1962-65 _ Le Grand Macabre 1975-77 Second Version 1996 Orchestral _ Concert Românesc Romanian Concert 1951 _ Apparitions 1958-59 _ Atmosphères 1961 _ Lontano 1967 _ Ramifications For String Orchestra Or 12 Solo Strings 1968-69 _ Chamber Concerto For 13 Instrumentalists 1969-70 _ Melodien 1971 _ San Francisco Polyphony 1973-74 Concertante _ Cello Concerto 1966 _ Double Concerto For Flute Oboe And Orchestra 1972 _ Piano Concerto 1985-88 _ Violin Concerto 1992 _ Hamburg Concerto For Horn And Chamber Orchestra With 4 Obligato Natural Horns 1998-99 Revised 2003 Vocal/Choral _ Requiem For Soprano And Mezzo Soprano Solo Mixed Chorus And Orchestra 1963-65 _ Lux Aeterna For 16 Solo Voices 1966 _ Clocks And Clouds For 12 Female Voices 1973 _ Nonsense Madrigals For 6 Male Voices 1988-1993 _ Síppal Dobbal Nádihegedüvel With Pipes Drums Fiddles 2000 Chamber/Instrumental _ Sonate For Solo Cello 1948/1953 _ Andante And Allegro For String Quartet 1950 _ Balad_ _I Joc Ballad And Dance For Two Violins 1950 _ Six Bagatelles For Wind Quintet 1953 _ String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses Nocturnes 1953-54 _ String Quartet No. 2 1968 _ Ten Pieces For Wind Quintet 1968 _ Trio For Violin Horn And Piano 1982 _ Hommage À Hilding Rosenberg For Violin And Cello 1982 _ Sonata For Solo Viola 1991-94 Keyboard Piano _ Induló March Four-Hands 1942 _ Polifón Etüd Polyphonic Étude Four-Hands 1943 _ Capriccio Nº 1 & Nº 2 1947 _ Invention 1948 _ Három Lakodalmi Tánc Three Wedding Dances Four-Hands 1950 _ Sonatina Four-Hands 1950 _ Musica Ricercata 1951-1953 _ Trois Bagatelles 1961 _ Three Pieces For Two Pianos 1976 _ Études Pour Piano Book 1 Six Etudes 1985 _ Études Pour Piano Book 2 Eight Etudes 1988-94 _ Études Pour Piano Book 3 Four Etudes 1995-2001 Organ _ Ricercare - Ommagio A Girolamo Frescobaldi 1951 _ Volumina 1961-62 Revised 1966 _ Two Studies For Organ 1967 1969 Harpsichord _ Continuum 1968 _ Passacaglia Ungherese 1978 _ Hungarian Rock Chaconne 1978 Electronic _ Glissandi Electronic Music 1957 _ Artikulation Electronic Music 1958 Miscellaneous _ Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes 1962 Awards _ Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition Etudes For Piano 1986 _ Schock Prize For Musical Arts 1995 _ Wolf Prize Israel 1996 _ Kyoto Award 2001 _ Kossuth Price Hungary 2003 _ Polar Music Prize 2004 Due To A Misspelling Of His Name He Has TWO Different Profiles On Last.FM.
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