György Ligeti Music

About György Ligeti

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Early life: Ligeti was born in Dicsőszentmárton, which was renamed Târnăveni in 1945, in Transylvania to a Hungarian Jewish family. Ligeti recalls that his first exposure to languages other than Hungarian came one day while listening to a conversation among the Romanian-speaking town police. Before that he hadn't known that other languages existed. He moved to Kolozsvár (Cluj) with his family when he was 6, and he was not to return to the town of his birth until the 1990s. Ligeti received his initial... Read More

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Comments about György Ligeti

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Northampton, MaUs
Friday October 28 2011 09:50 AM
Thank you !!!!!
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Québec CanadaCa
Tuesday February 01 2011 11:57 AM
I appreciated listening to Lux Aeterna... Wow. Makes you think and feel way deep in some human tragedies and also wider spaces above... My feelings...
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Monday November 29 2010 11:02 AM
Requiem for Soprano sounds like a flight of beee'z or a spooky graveyard movie of crying zombies
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Framingham, MaUs
Monday March 29 2010 10:13 AM
I agree......!
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Ann Arbor, MiUs
Monday July 06 2009 02:44 PM
Requiem for Soprano is creepy as heck.
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Monday June 09 2008 03:53 AM
This entire section is a gross joke of ignorance about a truely great avant-garde composer. But Ligeti was a bit of a jokester at times. He might be amused.
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