György Ligeti : music of the imagination

György Ligeti : music of the imagination / Richard Steinitz.

One of the world's best known living composers, György Sándor Ligeti is widely acknowledged as the most influential and admired creative figure of the late twentieth century. His brilliantly conceived and challenging pieces, searingly intense at times and full of humor and irony at others, incl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steinitz, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Ligeti, György, > 1923-2006.
Ligeti, György, > 1923-2006 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ligeti, György > 1923-2006
Ligeti, György.
Composers > Hungary > Biography.
Biography
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • From East to West
  • The Making of the Man
  • Night and Morning: An East European Apprenticeship
  • Catching Up
  • The Watershed of 1960: International Debut
  • Fantasy and Technique
  • Distorting Mirrors: Humour and Antilogic
  • Distance and Enchantment
  • A Gestural Kaleidoscope
  • Spider's Web: The Labyrinth of Melodies
  • Dis(c)loc(k)ation and Transformation
  • The Grand Illusionist
  • Alice in Breughelland: A Grotesque Carnival of Sex and Death
  • In the midst of life ...
  • The Dynamics of Disorder
  • The Piano Etudes
  • Curiouser and curiouser
  • On (Not) Writing Opera
  • Productions of Le Grand Macabre.

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