Great Composers: György Ligeti
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Published 2016-11-24
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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Music:
- György Ligeti: Requiem (1965), unknown performers [original upload: wawSCvuGj4o]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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All Comments (21)
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Love, love, love the music of Ligeti. I don't believe he is languishing in obscurity. I have three box sets of his material all on well known record labels including DG, Sony, and Teldec. The 5 disc set on Teldec is a great place to get acquainted with his music.
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Ligeti was born in Romania (not in Hungary). By the Treaty of Trianon (1920) that part (Transylvania) of the former Hungarian Kingdom (Austro-Hungarian Empire) was part of Romania. So technically, he was born into a Hungarian family in Romania.
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Wow! This video is so informative and wonderful! Please keep them coming and share the references/further reading and resources as well! Your book shelf looks amazing!
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Fascinating, what an interesting composer. Thanks for sharing, Ligeti seems like the type of artist I'm going to love learning more about
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One of my all time favourite composers...thank you!!!
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Finally!!! This is gonna be awesome, I love Ligeti! :)))))
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Thanx, Maestro 🌹🌹🌹
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Ty ty for this great video about the greatest bad boy of all time.
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I really love Ligeti's later works because I always get inspired by the way he uses traditional chords, all-interval ideas (simple motifs that contain all the intervals i.e. in Ligeti's Horn Trio) and the weird quasi-diatonic constructs that he makes out of those motifs (as in the Nonsense Madrigals). The main "all-interval idea" of the Horn Trio contains A-Ab (minor second) B-A (major second) Eb-C (minor third) G-B (major third) Eb in the second chord to Ab in the third (perfect fourth) and Eb-A (tritone) I also like the indirect reference Ligeti made to Ockeghem and Gesualdo in near the end of "The Alphabet".
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3:29 little correction: The last movement is an Arrangement of the 10th (Second to last) piece from musica ricercata, not the 11th (last) one. Other than that, Great video! 😄
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i m learning his devils staircase, man is it tough but also fun...how the heck could he visualize the notes at that crazy fast tempo...genius.
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Hey there Mr. Little. Thank you for posting this! Gyorgy Ligeti is one of those composers who should really be pulled out from obscurity... P.S. - Do any of Ligeti's early works exist? I mean, he left some of his compositions while fleeing from Hungary in 1956, so... If so, which pieces are those?
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Nice video. You should make a video about Roslavets.
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I wonder if he composed the piano etudes at the piano or if it was done at the composers desk?
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How about to make a video abput Cyril Scott? Ps. You're awesome!
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Can you do a video of James Macmillan?
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Who are you talking about in 6:20 ? I cant understand
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Hungarian Rock is my favourite piece of harpsichord music. 😋
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Thanks to this channel I checked out Ligeti’s horn trio; if it has romanticism in it then I have a hole in the head!
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Can you do Scarlatti?
