György Ligeti

Atmosphères famously overturns all traditional categories of Western classical music. There is absolutely no discernible melody, harmony is reduced to the drifting of saturated chromatic clusters, and...

Ramifications represents a further development of my method of composition with complex musical net-formations; it is, as it were, a terminus in the development from dense and static to broken-up and...

Ramifications represents a further development of my method of composition with complex musical net-formations; it is, as it were, a terminus in the development from dense and static to broken-up and...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

Un momento destacado para los solistas: la cadencia de Oscar Strasnoy para el Concierto para violín de Ligeti entrelaza los motivos centrales de la obra en un recorrido virtuosístico y conduce la part...

Experience a true milestone of avant-garde organ repertoire with “Volumina” (1961–62, rev. 1966), presented in a premium sheet music edition by the renowned Edition Peters. This groundbreaking work pu...

Ligeti's piano études are some of the most splendid works ever composed for this instrument. Every ambitious player is eventually going to examine these milestones of contemporary music literature. Th...

In his Hamburg Concerto Ligeti, inspired by the tonal possibilities of the natural horn, explores alternatives to the well-tempered tonal system. In the orchestra piece he juxtaposes the solo horn wit...

This work, composed in 1990 at the suggestion of the violinist Saschko Gawriloff, is in the tradition of great virtuoso violin concertos. Originally consisting of three movements, the work was revised...

Wörtlich übersetzt ist das Libretto ein 'kleines Buch', ein 'Büchlein'. Doch nicht irgendein Büchlein. Seit es Opern gibt, gibt es die Textbücher dazu. Oft erzählen die Universalsprache Musik und der...

Starre Rhythmik trifft auf weiche Lautmalerei: György Ligetis energiegeladenes Werk für Orchester und 12-stimmigen Frauenchor kombiniert die Gegensätze Natur und Technik - jetzt als Studienpartitur zu...

Starre Rhythmik trifft auf weiche Lautmalerei: György Ligetis energiegeladenes Werk für Orchester und 12-stimmigen Frauenchor kombiniert die Gegensätze Natur und Technik - jetzt als Studienpartitur zu...

György Ligeti composed one single opera, 'Le Grand Macabre'. The conductor of the world premiere, Elgar Howarth, took three arias which, due to their effusiveness, are highlights of the opera, and arr...

György Ligeti composed one single opera, 'Le Grand Macabre'. The conductor of the world premiere, Elgar Howarth, took three arias which, due to their effusiveness, are highlights of the opera, and arr...

I composed the Piano Concerto in two stages: the first three movements during the years 1985-86, the next two in 1987, the final autograph of the last movement was ready by January, 1988. The concerto...

Das Orchesterstück Melodien habe ich 1971 komponiert. Ich versuchte, die dichte Mikropolyphonie meiner Musiksprache aufzulockern, transparenter zu machen. Im Grunde genommen blieb ich treu zu meinem f...

Das Orchesterstück Melodien habe ich 1971 komponiert. Ich versuchte, die dichte Mikropolyphonie meiner Musiksprache aufzulockern, transparenter zu machen. Im Grunde genommen blieb ich treu zu meinem f...

Those familiar with Ligeti's vocal compositions will be surprised by this seemingly simple and plain musical miniature after a poem by Hölderlin. Even though composed during the same period as the 'No...

Ein Stück, das man in Stresssituationen wohl besser nicht hört. Continuum' von György Ligeti ist eines der berühmtesten Werke der 1960er Jahre, ein Klassiker der Moderne. Entspannen kann man sich dabe...