György Ligeti
Notable works by György Ligeti.
Artikulation (Ligeti)
Artikulation is an electronic composition by György Ligeti. Composed and notated in January and February 1958, the piece was prepared and recorded on magnetic tape from February to March, with the
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Atmosphères is a piece for orchestra, composed by György Ligeti in 1961. It is noted for eschewing conventional melody and metre in favor of dense sound textures. After Apparitions, it was the second
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Bujdosó, commonly known in English as The Fugitive or Song of Exile, is an early vocal composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It was finished in 1946 and is strongly influenced by Béla
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The Concerto for Cello and Orchestra is a cello concerto by György Ligeti written in 1966. It is dedicated to cellist Siegfried Palm, who gave the concerto its premiere
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Chromatische Phantasie () is an early piano composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It is one of Ligeti's juvenile compositions withdrawn by the
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Continuum for harpsichord is a musical composition by György Ligeti composed in 1968, and dedicated to the contemporary harpsichordist, Antoinette Vischer. The composer describes the conception and
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Due capricci is a set of two capricci for piano written by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. Both of the capricci were finished in
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Éjszaka () and Reggel (), sometimes also referred to as Éjszaka és reggel () or Ejszaka, Reggel, are twin vocal compositions by Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti. They were published as a set
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The Hungarian composer György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001. They are considered one of the major creative achievements of his last decades, and one of the
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Haj, ifjuság!, also referred to in English as Oh, Youth!, Hey, Youth!, and simply Youth!, is an early vocal composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It was finished in 1952 and published in
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Hamburg Concerto () for solo horn and chamber orchestra with four obbligato natural horns is one of György Ligeti's last works, composed in 1998–99 and revised in 2003. The work was commissioned by
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Invention is an early composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It is scored for solo piano and was composed in
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Kállai kettős, also referred to in English as Double-Dance from Kálló, Kálló Two-Step, Two Folksongs, or its French form Kálló's pas de deux, is an early vocal composition by Hungarian composer
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"Lakodalmas", commonly translated into English as "Wedding Dance", is an early vocal composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It was completed in 1950, before he finished his musical
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Le Grand Macabre (completed 1977, revised 1996) is the third stage production by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, and his only major stage-work. Previously, he had created two absurdist sung
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Lux Aeterna is a piece for a 16-part mixed choir, written by György Ligeti in 1966. It is most famous for its use in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and its 1984 sequel, Peter
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Magány, sometimes translated into English as Solitude or Loneliness, is an early vocal composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti to a text by Sándor Weöres. It was finished in 1946 and, as most
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Magyar Etüdök () is a collection of three studies by György Ligeti. It is scored for 16 voices and was finished in 1983. It was Ligeti's first vocal composition based on Hungarian poems after a
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Mátraszentimrei dalok () is a collection of songs after Hungarian folk tunes by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. They are strongly influenced by fellow composer Béla Bartók, who also used Hungarian
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Musica ricercata is a set of eleven pieces for piano by György Ligeti. The work was composed from 1951 to 1953, shortly after the composer began lecturing at the Budapest Academy of Music. The work
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The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by György Ligeti is a five-movement piano concerto. Ligeti wrote: It is dedicated to the American conductor Mario di Bonaventura who premiered the
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Pletykázó asszonyok, sometimes translated into English as Gossipping Women, Gossip, and The Gossips, is one of the two early canons for choir by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It was completed in
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Poème symphonique is a 1962 composition by György Ligeti for one hundred mechanical metronomes. It was written during his brief acquaintance with the Fluxus
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Ramifications is a composition for strings by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It was finished in 1968 and premiered in
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The Requiem by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition, composed between 1963 and 1965. The work lasts for just under half an hour, and is in four
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Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000) is a song cycle in seven movements by the composer György Ligeti based on poetry by Sándor Weöres. The work is scored for
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The Sonata for Solo Cello is an unaccompanied cello sonata written by György Ligeti between 1948 and 1953. The piece was initially received poorly by the Soviet-run Composer's Union and was not
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The Hungarian composer György Ligeti published three string quartets: two string quartets proper (1953–54, 1968) and a student piece from 1950 published toward the end of his life. The first two
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Three Bagatelles, for David Tudor, better known by its original French title Trois bagatelles, is a 1961 solo piano composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. The composition is well known for
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Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin () is a 1982 collection of pieces for 16 voices by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. It was premiered in Stockholm on September 23, 1983, by the Swedish
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The Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano by György Ligeti was completed in 1982. The piece was a turning point in Ligeti’s career. Ligeti had composed little since he completed his opera, Le Grand
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György Ligeti composed his Viola Sonata between 1991 and 1994. It is a sonata for viola solo in six movements, and Ligeti composed it in various phases, parallel with his Violin Concerto, and his
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The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by György Ligeti is a violin concerto written for and dedicated to the violinist Saschko Gawriloff. A performance of the work lasts about 28
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