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    György Sándor Ligeti was a 20th century composer of classical music described as one of the most important avant-garde composers of his time. He was born in Transylvania and lived in Hungary before emigrating to Austria. Ligeti's earliest works were influenced by Béla Bartók and included choral settings of folk songs. One of his earliest pieces in the modern repertoire is his Cello Sonata from 1948-1953, which was initially banned. In the 1950s, Ligeti began experimenting with restricting pitch sets, as seen in his piano cycle Musica ricercata. Upon moving to Cologne, he began writing electronic music alongside Stockhausen and Koenig

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    György Sándor Ligeti was a 20th century composer of classical music described as one of the most important avant-garde composers of his time. He was born in Transylvania and lived in Hungary before emigrating to Austria. Ligeti's earliest works were influenced by Béla Bartók and included choral settings of folk songs. One of his earliest pieces in the modern repertoire is his Cello Sonata from 1948-1953, which was initially banned. In the 1950s, Ligeti began experimenting with restricting pitch sets, as seen in his piano cycle Musica ricercata. Upon moving to Cologne, he began writing electronic music alongside Stockhausen and Koenig

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    György Sándor Ligeti was a 20th century composer of classical music described as one of the most important avant-garde composers of his time. He was born in Transylvania and lived in Hungary before emigrating to Austria. Ligeti's earliest works were influenced by Béla Bartók and included choral settings of folk songs. One of his earliest pieces in the modern repertoire is his Cello Sonata from 1948-1953, which was initially banned. In the 1950s, Ligeti began experimenting with restricting pitch sets, as seen in his piano cycle Musica ricercata. Upon moving to Cologne, he began writing electronic music alongside Stockhausen and Koenig

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    Gyrgy Sndor Ligeti

    Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described


    as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the
    twentieth century" also as "one of the most innovative and influential among
    progressive figures of his time".
    He was Born in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before emigrating
    and becoming an Austrian citizen.
    Many of his very earliest works were written for chorus and included settings of
    folk songs. His largest work in this period was a graduation composition for the
    Budapest Academy, entitled Cantata for Youth Festival, for four vocal soloists,
    chorus and orchestra. One of his earliest pieces now in the repertoire is his
    Cello Sonata, a work in two contrasting movements that were written in 1948
    nineteen forty eight and 1953 nineteen fifty three respectively. It was
    initially banned by the Soviet-run Composer's Union and had to wait a quarter
    of a century before its first public performance
    Ligeti's earliest works are often an extension of the musical language of Bla
    Bartk. Even his piano cycle Musica ricercata written in 1953 nineteen fifty
    three), The work is based on a simple restriction: the first piece uses
    exclusively one pitch A, heard in multiple octaves, and only at the end of the
    piece we can hear another pitch D The second piece then uses three notes (E,
    F, and G), the third piece uses four, and so on, so that in the final piece all
    twelve notes of the chromatic scale are present. Shortly after its composition
    Ligeti arranged six of the movements of Musica ricercata for wind quintet under
    the title 'Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet'. The Bagatelles were performed first
    in 1956 nineteen fifty six, but not in their entirety: the last movement was
    censored by the Soviets for being too 'dangerous'
    Upon arriving in Cologne he began to write electronic music alongside Karlheinz
    Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig He completed only two works in this
    medium, Glissandi in (1957 nineteen fifty seven) and Artikulation in (1958
    nineteen fifty eight)
    Another interesting piece is Aventures, like its companion piece Nouvelles
    Aventures, is a composition for three singers and instrumental septet, to a text
    semantically without meaning of Ligeti's own devising. Each of the singers has
    five roles to play, exploring five areas of emotion, and they switch from one to
    the other so quickly and abruptly that all five areas are present throughout the
    piece.
    From the 1970s, Ligeti turned away from total chromaticism and began to
    concentrate on rhythm. Pieces such as Continuum (1968) and Clocks and
    Clouds (197273) During the 1970s, he also became interested in the music of

    the Banda-Linda tribe from the Central African Republic, which he heard
    through the recordings of one of his students.
    Ligeti 's music is very interesting for contemporary composers because Ligeti explores
    different ways of making music that are not directly related to traditional standards
    such as the melody or harmony

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