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Gyorgy Ligeti

Hungarian Composer

Born: May 28, 1923

Died: Jun 12, 2006

Budapest Like Me Music Think Years

Related authors: Frederic Chopin Gustav Mahler Hector Berlioz Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Parry Ludwig van Beethoven Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short. Gyorgy Ligeti

Life Life Is Too Short Too Boring Boring Things Read Short Things

I like to stay home and listen to recordings. Gyorgy Ligeti

Home Stay Recordings Like Listen

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him. Gyorgy Ligeti

Great Meet Like Him Should

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. Gyorgy Ligeti

Wonderful Lyric Hungarian Poetry Literature

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. Gyorgy Ligeti

Physics Mind Half Own Changed Later Composer My Own Never Study Half Years Continue Math Years Did Want After Realized

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. Gyorgy Ligeti

Work Home Me Sit Say Supposed Although Am False False Modesty Person Just Famous Famous Person Anything Mean Modesty

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists. Gyorgy Ligeti

Communists Lived

First of all I listen to music. I like music. Gyorgy Ligeti

Music First Like First Of All Listen

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

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems. Gyorgy Ligeti

Financial Problems Past Ten Ten Years Had Years

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully. Gyorgy Ligeti

Mother Indirectly He Goose Beautifully Very Influenced Used Stravinsky

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. Gyorgy Ligeti

Music Find Yes Want

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity. Gyorgy Ligeti

Complexity Higher Piano Developed Concerto Much

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him. Gyorgy Ligeti

Me Important Corresponded Something Him Very Wanted Which

I don't use old music. Gyorgy Ligeti

Music Old Old Music Use

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