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Gyorgy Ligeti
Hungarian
Composer
About the author
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#World
#Jazz
#Dream
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Poetry
#Literature
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Artist
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Paris
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Want
#Music
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Money
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Years
#War
#Travel
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Mother
Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Man
#Word
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#English
#London
#Favorite
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#People
#Years
#Thought
I don't use old music.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Old
#Music
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Want
#Music
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Musicians
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Words
#Will
#Music
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Life
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Problems
#Years
#Past
#Financial
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Paris
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Want
#People
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Old
#Music
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Complexity
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#First
#Music
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
Gyorgy Ligeti,
Hungarian
Composer
#Home