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Ligeti
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Lig·e·ti  (lg-t), György Sándor 1923-2006.
Hungarian-born Austrian composer whose experimental works include orchestral, chamber, and choral music.
Ligeti (Hungarian) [ˈligɛti]
n
(Biographies / Ligeti, György (1923 M, Hungarian, MUSIC: composer) György (djørdj). born 1923, Hungarian composer, resident in Vienna. His works, noted for their experimentalism, include
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Nott put together three masters who embody a critical turning point in the development of Western music-Beethoven, who spanned the Classical and Romantic ages; Mahler, who bridged the late Romantic and the modern; and the Hungarian postwar figure György Ligeti, who has probably been more successful than any other living composer in combining disparate musical schools and traditions into a distinctive, bewitching blend.
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The powerful music that motors the despair of Dante Variations ("These are the nearly soulless whose lives concluded neither blame nor praise"- The Inferno, Canto III) is by György Ligeti.
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