Gyorgy ligeti biography of albert
It was into this existence that György Ligeti was born in to a Hungarian-Jewish family, in Discoszenmárton, Romanian Transylvania.
Ligeti was born in Transylvania of Hungarian-Jewish parents, where he first studied music at the Kolozsvár Conservatory.!
Born on May 28, , in Dicsoszentmárton, Romania; son of Sándor (a bank employee) and Ilona (a physician) Ligeti; married Vera Ligeti; children: Lukas.
Education: Attended the Music Conservatory of Kolozsvár, ; Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, graduated in Addresses: Record company--Teldec Classics International, Schubertstrasse , D, Germany, website:
Stepping into the intriguing, multi-dimensional, thought-provoking musical world of composer György Ligeti is an intellectual and spiritual adventure.
This is a composer whose richly textured and deeply compelling music makes references, playful and serious, to great European poetry, the conundrums of science, the realism of M.C. Escher, and the visions of Hieronymus Bosch.
Attempts to define Ligeti's music (critics have called it ironic, light, paradoxical, melancholy, mysterious, grotesque, and haunting) barely capture the essence of an art which defies labels and categories. Difficult to define,