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IMPORTANT WORKS
Apparitions (195859/1960)
Lontano (1967/1967)
Atmosphres (1961/1961)
Requiem (196365/1965)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Beethoven Prize of Bonn (1967)
WORKS
Ligeti's earlier works used a technique known as micropolyphony. This is a similar technique to polyphony but with
the main difference that the polyphony is hidden through a dense and rich stack of pitches.
Ligetis music from the last two decades of his life is unmistakable for its rhythmic complexity. Writing about his first
book of Piano Etudes, the composer claims this rhythmic complexity stems from two vastly different sources of
inspiration: the Romantic-era piano music of Chopin and Schumann and the indigenous music of sub-Saharan
Africa. The difference between the earlier and later pieces lies in a new conception of pulse. In the earlier works,
the pulse is something to be divided into two, three and so on. The effect of these different subdivisions, especially
when they occur simultaneously, is to blur the aural landscape, creating the micropolyphonic effect of Ligetis
music.
Studies
1929
1949
World War II
1944
Education interrupted, he was sent to a forced
labor brigade by the Horthy regime
Brother and parents were sent to Auschwitz
and only his mother was the only survivor
1956
Fled to Vienna for the violent suppress of the
Hungarian revolution by the Soviet Army
Few weeks later in Cologne, Germany he met
Stockhausen and Koenig working in electronic music