György Ligeti | Composer

György Ligeti

Ligeti CR schott Peter Andersen1

"A restless seeker with great independence and inventiveness"

In the summer of 2023, the Salzburg Festival will demonstrate its close affinity with the music of György Ligeti through the concert series Time with Ligeti. Tabea Zimmermann and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who play a key role in shaping the series, talk about their own relationship with the composer.

Ligeti CR schott Peter Andersen1

"A restless seeker with great independence and inventiveness"

In the summer of 2023, the Salzburg Festival will demonstrate its close affinity with the music of György Ligeti through the concert series Time with Ligeti. Tabea Zimmermann and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who play a key role in shaping the series, talk about their own relationship with the composer.

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Birthday Music

On 28 May, the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti's birth, the composer's music was heard in concert halls all over the world - in cities with which his life was closely linked, such as Budapest, Vienna, and Hamburg, as well as in faraway places like Tokyo and Mexico City.

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New publication

Composers with very different voices emerged from György Ligeti's composition class in Hamburg. For a joint book, many of them have compiled their memories of the teacher and of the musical issues that were negotiated in the class.

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Richly coloured, rhythmically concise, expressively significant

In addition to having recorded all of György Ligeti's works for choir a cappella, the SWR Vokalensemble is offering workshops on the composer's work as part of a major school project and is also touring his music in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France and Italy in May and June.

Vienna celebrates György Ligeti's music

The Wiener Konzerthaus is dedicating an extensive concert series to its honorary member György Ligeti on the occasion of his 100th birthday in the first half of the year.

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A new work by György Ligeti?

In any case, an almost unheard new version of Macabre Collage was performed independently by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in February 2023.

Das Jüngste Gericht Memling

Iridescent to unbridled: The Requiem

Hans Memling's Danzig altarpiece of the Last Judgement served György Ligeti as inspiration for the Dies irae from his Requiem, which became one of the most complex polyphonic works in music history. As a summary of his previous work and the nucleus of his new work, the Requiem plays a key role.

AGENDA

FRI 16.06.

Wiener Konzerthaus

WED 21.06.

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

THU 29.06.

Schwere Reiter, Munich

FRI 28.07.

Mozarteum, Salzburg

SUN 30.07.

Mozarteum, Salzburg

Mozarteum, Salzburg

FRI 11.08.

Royal Albert Hall, London