biography
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Ligeti, György (Sándor)
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pronunciation:
[ligetee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Dicsöszent-Márton, Hungary. He studied and later taught at the Budapest Academy of Music. After leaving Hungary in 1956, he worked at the electronics studio in Cologne, then settled in Vienna, where he developed an experimental approach to composition. His first large orchestral work, Apparitions (1958–9), made his name widely known. In Aventures (1962) he uses his own invented language of speech sounds. He has also written a choral requiem, a cello concerto, and music for piano, harpsichord, organ, and wind and string ensembles. |
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