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
Gyorgy Ligeti quotes about
budapest paris
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
home
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
writing decided knows
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
firsts listening-to-music
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
kind colleagues new-music
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
piano lessons composing
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
communist nazi
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
thinking paris moscow
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
people use want
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
past years financial-problems
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
use old-music
I don't use old music.
piano complexity higher
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity