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
firsts listening-to-music
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
use old-music
I don't use old music.
artist grandfather musician
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
kind colleagues new-music
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
teacher musician very-famous
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
music want fractals
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
allegory bank fairy father socialist utopian wrote
My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.
budapest paris
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
writing decided knows
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
giving want
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
thinking lasts composer
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
past years financial-problems
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
years long people
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.