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
music want fractals
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
math years mind
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.
writing together bars
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
son wife vienna
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
life boring too-short
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
mother used stravinsky
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
war years impossible
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
wall past avant-garde
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.