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Gyorgy Ligeti [1923-2006] Hungarian
Rank: 101
Composer (with music)
Contemporary, Avant-garde, sonorism, micropolyphony


György Sándor Ligeti was 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".

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If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
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But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
102
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
103
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
104
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
105
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.
106
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. Famous
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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
108
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
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But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
110
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
111
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
112
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
113
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
114
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
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I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
116
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. Travel
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I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
118
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
119
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
120
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
121
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
122
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
123
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
124
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
125
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
126
I don't use old music.
201
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
202
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
203
Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
204
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
205
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
206
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
207
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
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