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Ligeti
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Ligeti
Gy?rgy . born 1923, Hungarian composer, resident in Vienna. His works, noted for their experimentalism, include Atmospheres (1961) for orchestra, Volumina (1962) for organ, and a requiem mass (1965)


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Nott put together three masters who embody a critical turning point in the development of Western music-Beethoven, who spanned the Classical and Romantic ages; Mahler, who bridged the late Romantic and the modern; and the Hungarian postwar figure György Ligeti, who has probably been more successful than any other living composer in combining disparate musical schools and traditions into a distinctive, bewitching blend.
Non-Symphonic Programs Rescue the Symphonic Ideal by Charles Michener / The New York Observer
The powerful music that motors the despair of Dante Variations ("These are the nearly soulless whose lives concluded neither blame nor praise"- The Inferno, Canto III) is by György Ligeti.
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