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2 unusual facts about György Ligeti


Ensemble Alternance

The ensemble is particularly well known for its performances of Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Roberto Carnevale, György Ligeti, George Crumb, Giacinto Scelsi, de Pablo, and Klaus Huber.

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Jan Harlan managed to get many of Kubrick's collaborators for interviews, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Keir Dullea, Arthur C. Clarke, Malcolm McDowell, Peter Ustinov, Jack Nicholson, György Ligeti and Matthew Modine.


Alarm Will Sound

Their 2009 album a/rhythmia, released on Nonesuch Records is an eclectic mix of rhythmically complex music by Benedict Mason, Michael Gordon, György Ligeti, Mochipet, Johannes Ciconia, Conlon Nancarrow, Harrison Birtwistle, Josquin des Prez, and Autechre.

Alex Conrado

Between 1991 and 1999, he researched and studied under famous avant-garde composers such as György Ligeti, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Metzger, Mathias Espahlinger, Mauricio Kagel, Franco Donatoni, and Brian Ferneyhough.

Anne LeBaron

She studied with Mauricio Kagel and György Ligeti as a Fulbright Scholar in 1980–81 (Edwards 2001) and also studied Korean traditional music at the The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul (1983).

Béla Quartet

They were united by their desire both to champion the contemporary repertoire : George Crumb, György Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Kaija Saariaho, Béla Bartók, Steve Reich, Raphaël Cendo, Marco Stroppa, Henri Dutilleux...

Claudio Prieto

In 1967, he participated in the International Masterclass at Darmstadt (Germany) with among others, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Earle Brown.

Clytus Gottwald

Among the composers who wrote music for the ensemble are Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Gérard Grisey, Heinz Holliger, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, Steve Reich, Dieter Schnebel, and Hans Zender.

Ctirad Kohoutek

In 1963, he attended the Summer School of Music in Dartington, he attended also courses of Pierre Boulez and György Ligeti in Darmstadt (1965).

Dorothy Dorow

She has sung world-premieres of works by such composers as György Ligeti, Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Dallapiccola, Sylvano Bussotti and Luigi Nono.

Edition Peters

The publishing house’s best known composers of the 20th and 21st century include John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, and Morton Feldman, alongside its contemporary composers Mark Andre, Jonathan Dove, Bernd Franke, Brian Ferneyhough, Anders Hillborg, Rebecca Saunders, Ming Tsao and Erkki-Sven Tüür, to name but a few, as well the New Generation.

Ernest Bour

World premières he presided over included works by Bussotti, Ferneyhough, Górecki, Ligeti, Rihm, Stockhausen and Xenakis, and he gave the French premières of Hindemith's Symphony Mathis der Maler and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and the European premiere of Susman's Trailing Vortices.

James Barralet

He performed the Partita alongside Kenneth Hesketh's Die Hängende Figur ist Judas at the Purcell Room in a Park Lane Group concert in 2008, and the following year, he performed Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello and György Ligeti's Sonata for Solo Cello at his critically acclaimed Wigmore Hall debut recital.

Juan Carlos Tolosa

At the same time, between 1990 and 1998, he regularly attended the Ars musica contemporary music festival composition seminars and workshops, with the participation of Luciano Berio, Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Ferneyhough, Pascal Dusapin, Iannis Xenakis, Magnus Lindberg, Luca Francesconi and Wolfgang Rihm.

LaSalle Quartet

György Ligeti dedicated his Second String Quartet to the group, and they premiered it in Baden-Baden on December 14th, 1969.

Michel Rubini

This 1983 score is a good example of very dark 1980s electronic music (created using synthesizers and synclavier II) inspired by the work of Krzysztof Penderecki and György Ligeti.

Pál Kadosa

He was head of the piano department of the Franz Liszt Academy for many years and his students have included such leading musicians as György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Árpád Joó, András Schiff, Zoltán Kocsis, Dezső Ránki, Valéria Szervánszky, Ronald Cavaye and Jenő Jandó.

Paul Newland

He has won numerous prizes, including the RPS Composition Prize 1990, a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 1993, and in 1995 he was awarded the Royal Academy of Music's Josiah Parker Prize by György Ligeti.

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble

Emphasis is placed on pieces by modern composers and recent past seasons have featured works by György Ligeti, Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb, John Cage, David Lang, Robert Black and others.

Rolf Wallin

Wallin’s music combines an intuitive freedom with a rigorous mathematical approach, such as use of fractal algorithms to construct melody and harmony, resulting in a music that often hints at the influence of Ligeti, Xenakis and Berio.

See Siang Wong

He has often performed piano works of contemporary composers like Arnold Schönberg, Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Eötvös, Emmanuel Nunes, Marco Stroppa, James Dillon, Jonathan Harvey, Rudolf Kelterborn.

Vytautas Barkauskas

He was one of the most active avant-garde composers in Lithuania in the 1960s, influenced by Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski and György Ligeti.

Wu Qian

In 2001, she played a recital at the Purcell Room where her ambitious programme included Elliott Carter's Night Fantasies, two György Ligeti Études and Hafliði Hallgrímsson's Homage to Mondrian.


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