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Hungarian
-
Composer
May 28
, 1923 -
June 12
, 2006
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Colleagues
New
Everything
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Lived
Communists
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Words
Know
Will
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Listen
Like
First
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Simple
Harmony
Never
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Past
Problems
Financial
Years
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Money
Studying
Without
Budapest
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Mother
Used
He
Goose
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Gyorgy Ligeti
People
Want
Use
British
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Want
Find
Yes
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I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Want
Only
Give
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Together
Musicians
Write
Because
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Piano
Complexity
Higher
Much
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Me
Important
Something
Him
I don't use old music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Old
Old Music
Use
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Gyorgy Ligeti
You
Think
Paris
Come
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Gyorgy Ligeti
You
Think
Go
Paris
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
Gyorgy Ligeti
War
Travel
Impossible
Years
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Home
Stay
Listen
Like
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Life
Life Is Too Short
Short
Boring
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Me
Book
English
Said
Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Great
Meet
Like
Him
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Poetry
Literature
Wonderful
Lyric
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Gyorgy Ligeti
World
New
Dream
Rock
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti
People
Long
Thought
Years
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Grandfather
Artist
He
Painter
Biography
Nationality:
Hungarian
Type:
Composer
Born:
May 28
, 1923
Died:
June 12
, 2006
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