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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 music. [1] .
On 28 May 2023, the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti's birth, the composer's music was heard in concert halls all over the world - in cities with which his life was closely linked, such as Budapest, Vienna, and Hamburg, as well as in faraway places like Tokyo and Mexico City.
Jun 8, 2024 · György Ligeti (born May 28, 1923, Diciosânmartin [now Tîrnăveni], Transylvania, Romania—died June 12, 2006, Vienna, Austria) was a leading composer of the branch of avant-garde music concerned principally with shifting masses of sound and tone colours.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
György Ligeti, who lived starting in the mid-1950s partially in Germany and partially in Austria, and in 1967 became an Austrian citizen, was also active as an educator. From 1961 to 1971, he was guest professor for composition in Stockholm, in 1972 he was composer-in-residence at Stanford University, and from 1973 until 1989 he taught at the ...
Jun 2, 2016 · —György Ligeti. «While many music lovers continue to label contemporary music composition as inaccessible, the work of Hungarian composer György Ligeti has found a permanent place in the canon of Western music.
The Hungarian composer György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001.
The Requiem by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition, composed between 1963 and 1965.
