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György Ligeti

György Ligeti, full name György Sándor Ligeti, was a Hungarian and Austrian composer and musicologist.

Ligeti was born into a Jewish family, but his mother tongue was Hungarian and from an early age he was exposed to Romanian and Hungarian folk music. His first significant work was the Romanian Concerto, which he wrote in 1951. In 1956 Ligeti emigrated from Hungary to Austria, receiving Austrian citizenship in 1968.

In 1957 in Cologne, Ligeti met the experimental composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gottfried König and worked with them in the field of academic electronic music, but soon switched to instrumental music. He gained recognition from the Western avant-garde in 1961 with his work Visions and others, in which he used sonorics and the micropolyphony technique he had invented. In 1965 Ligeti completed one of his major works, Requiem.

During his life, Ligeti changed his compositional style and technique several times, ranging from electronic music and sonoricism (1950s and 1960s) to neoromanticism (1980s and 1990s). He has also written many theoretical articles on new currents in music.

Date and place of birt:28 may 1923, Târnăveni, Romania
Date and place of death:12 june 2006, Vienna, Austria
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Composer, Musicologist
Art style:Avant-garde, Neo-romanticism
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