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Titolo: Ligeti, musical pioneer, dies at 83 (Reuters)

Uno se non il maggiore compositore contemporaneo, noto per la colonna
sonora di Odissea 2001.
Am.
Ligeti, musical pioneer, dies at 83
· Hungarian-born composer embraced avant garde
· Nazi and Soviet eras led to abhorrence of dictatorship
Sam Jones
Tuesday June 13, 2006
The Guardian
Gyorgy Ligeti, the Hungarian-born musical pioneer whose use of texture
and density marked him out as one of the greatest composers of the 20th
century, died in Vienna yesterday after a long illness. He was 83.
Although sometimes hailed as the spiritual heir to Bartok, Ligeti's
work encompassed everything from Romanian folk music to avant garde,
electronic compositions. He was perhaps best known for his contribution
to the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and his
use of the technique he called "micropolyphony" - creating collages of
musical colour and texture rich enough to melt the borders between
melody, harmony and rhythm.
Tributes from friends and colleagues poured in last night. Ivan
Fischer, director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, told the
Hungarian state news agency that the country had lost "the most
significant composer of the post-Bartok era", adding: "Ligeti was an
avant garde, definitely modern composer who did the most for renewing
the musical language in the second half of the 20th century."
Stephen Ferguson, who worked as his assistant and editor at Schott
Music in the 1990s, said Ligeti was "one of the few avant garde
composers who found his way into the modern programme", and a master of
soundscapes.
"He reintroduced techniques of polyphony out of the tradition of Bach
and Palestrina with a playful and innovative sense of sound. He
developed a new sound - cluster sound - which fascinated Kubrick and
propelled Ligeti to the top of the great composers of the second half
of the 20th century," Mr Ferguson said.
Ligeti was born in 1923 to Jewish-Hungarian parents in the
predominantly ethnic Hungarian part of Romania's Transylvania region.
He was denied entrance to university by Nazi laws and began studying
music under Ferenc Farkas at the Cluj conservatory in Romania in 1941,
and continued in Budapest. In 1943, he was arrested by the Nazis and
sentenced to forced labour for the rest of the war. His father and
brother were less fortunate, perishing in Auschwitz.
After the war, Ligeti resumed his studies with Farkas and Sandor Veress
at Budapest's Franz Liszt Academy. After graduating in 1949, he did
research on Romanian folk music before returning to the academy as an
instructor in harmony, counterpoint and formal analysis. He stayed
there for seven years before fleeing to Austria with his wife two
months after the Soviet invasion in October 1956. He took Austrian
citizenship in 1967.
His arrival in Vienna opened up new possibilities. He met key players
in western Europe's avant garde music movement such as Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Herbert Eimert, who invited
him to join an electronic music studio at West Germany's state radio in
Cologne in 1957.
In an interview with the Guardian to mark his 80th birthday, he
explained his new found sense of freedom. "Although the communist
dictatorship was different in style to the Nazis, it was also
terrible," he said. "In a dictatorship you don't live your life."
By the late 1950s, he had won praise for his electronic composition
Artikulation and the orchestral Apparitions. But his work did not find
a global audience until Kubrick used excerpts from Atmospheres, a
requiem, and Lux Aeterna on the bestselling soundtrack for A Space
Odyssey.
Ligeti's music became increasingly satirical, witty and eclectic,
culminating in Le Grande Macabre, an fantastic opera inspired by the
paintings of Bosch and Brueghel.
Ligeti, who for a time also lived in Germany and San Francisco and was
a visiting professor at the Stockholm Academy of Music, was known for
striking a playful note with his music, epitomised by a piece he wrote
for 100 metronomes.
The Austrian chancellor, Wolfgang Schüssel, yesterday described Ligeti
as "the greatest Austrian in the 20th century music world", while the
city of Vienna said it would offer a special grave site in honour of
its adopted composer.
· Ligeti is survived by his wife, Vera, and a son, Lukas, a
percussionist who lives in New York.

finirà presto nel dimenticatoio...

sonora di Odissea 2001.
vedi iamc (NG di classica) e ice (it.cultura ebraica)
Qui siamo un pelo OT, amalric
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http://www.gyoergy-ligeti.de/special/ton/index.html

finirą presto nel dimenticatoio...
ci finisci prima tu, tranquillo
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non prima di aver verificato il declino della sua fama...

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Non direi. Si cerca di civilizzare i bruti assetati di sangue :-)
Am.

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