György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (28 Mei 1923 – 12 Juni 2006) merupakan seorang komposer yahudi Hungaria yang dilahirkan di Rumania siapa yang baru-baru ini cocok kepada warga negara Austria. Banyak hasil karya ini menjadi yang terkenal di bundaran musik klasik, tetapi di antara publik umum, dia menjadi yang terkenal untuk opera Le Grand Macabre dan beragam artikel yang terkemuka di film Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, dan Eyes Wide Shut.

Dia dilahirkan di Rumania sampai kematiannya di Austria pada 12 Juni 2006.

Karya

Opera

• Le Grand Macabre (1975-77, second version 1996)

Orchestral

• Concert românesc (1951)
• Apparitions (1958-59)
• Atmosphères (1961)
• Lontano (1967)
• Ramifications, for string orchestra or 12 solo strings (1968-69)
• Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists (1969-70)
• Melodien (1971)
• San Francisco Polyphony (1973-74)

Concertante

• Cello Concerto (1966)
• Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra (1972)
• Piano Concerto (1985-88)
• Violin Concerto (1992)
• Hamburg Concerto, for Horn and Chamber Orchestra with 4 Obligato Natural Horns (1998-99, revised 2003)

Vocal/Choral

• Idegen foldon, Betlehemi kiralyok, Bujdoso, Husvet, Magany, Magos kosziklanak, (1946)
• Three Weores Songs, voice and piano (1946-7)
• Lokodalmas (1950)
• Hortobagy (1951)
• Haj, ifjusag (1952)
• Five Arany Songs,voice and piano (1952)
• Inaktelki notak, Papaine (1953)
• Matraszentimrei dalok, Ejszaka (Night), Reggel (Morning) (1955)
• Aventures (1962)
• Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65)
• Requiem, for Soprano and Mezzo Soprano solo, mixed Chorus and Orchestra (1963-65)
• Lux Aeterna, for 16 solo voices (1966)
• Clocks and Clouds, for 12 female voices (1973)
• Nonsense madrigals, for 6 male voices (1988-1993)
• Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000)

Chamber/Instrumental

• Sonate, for solo cello (1948/1953)
• Andante and Allegro, for string quartet (1950)
• Baladă şi joc (Ballad and Dance), for two violins (1950)
• Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953)
• String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953-54)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1968)
• Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)
• Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)
• Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg, for violin and cello (1982)
• Sonata for Solo Viola (1991-94)

Keyboard

Piano

• Induló (March), four-hands (1942)
• Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude), four-hands (1943)
• Allegro, four-hands (1943)
• Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947)
• Invention (1948)
• Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances), four-hands (1950)
• Sonatina, four-hands (1950)
• Musica ricercata (1951-1953)
• Trois Bagatelles (1961)
• Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976)
• Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985)
• Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988-94)
• Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes (1995-2001)

Organ

• Ricercare - Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1951)
• Volumina (1961-62, revised 1966)
• Two Studies for Organ (1967, 1969)

Harpsichord

• Continuum (1968)
• Passacaglia ungherese (1978)
• Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978)

Electronic

• Glissandi, electronic music (1957)
• Artikulation, electronic music (1958)

Miscellaneous

• Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962)

Penghargaan

• Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (Etudes for Piano) (1986)
• Sonning Award (1990; Denmark)
• Penghargaan Schock for Musical Arts (1995)
• Penghargaan Wolf (1996)
• Penghargaan Kyoto (2001)
• [[Penghargaan Kossuth (2003)
• Polar Music Prize (2004)

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