Gyorgy Ligeti : Music and Imagination

By (author) Steinitz, Richard

This is an illuminating study of the life and work of Gyorgy Ligeti, one of the best-loved and most original composers of our time. For 50 years Gyorgy Ligeti has pursued a boldly independent and uncompromising course, yet his music is widely loved and admired. Ever since Stanley Kubrick's (unsanctioned) use of his music on the soundtrack of 2001: "A Space Odyssey", interest in Ligeti has extended far beyond the classical domain. He is the only living composer whose complete output, including juvenilia, is being systematically issued on CD. Published to coincide with the composer's eightieth birthday, Richard Steinitz's compelling new book is both an illuminating study of the music and its associative ideas - drawn from literature, theatre, the visual arts, fractal mathematics, ethnic cultures and other maverick composers - and of Ligeti the man. Ligeti has confided in Steinitz a mass of previously unknown biographical information. The result is an astonishing account of his early upbringing in Romania, of his terrifying yet surreal experiences in the war, and of his difficulties attempting to forge an identity as a young composer under repressive censorship in Communist Hungary, before his dramatic escape to the West in 1956. The story continues via Ligeti's association with the Western avant-garde and his increasingly masterful sequence of highly individual compositions, which Steinitz brings vividly to life through informative commentaries as well as through the composer's own words.

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書名 Gyorgy Ligeti : Music and Imagination
著作者等 Steinitz, Richard
書名別名 Music and Imagination
出版元 Faber & Faber
刊行年月 2003.04.07
ページ数 448p
大きさ H242 x W161
ISBN 9780571176311
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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