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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50684611 Title: György Ligeti : music of the imagination Author: Richard Steinitz Publisher: Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 1555535518 9781555535513 OCLC:50684611

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György Ligeti : music of the imagination

Author:	Richard Steinitz
Publisher:	Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	One of the world's best known living composers, György Sándor Ligeti is widely acknowledged as among the most influential and admired creative figures of the late twentieth century.
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Subjects	Ligeti, György, -- 1923-2006. Ligeti, György, -- 1923-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation. Composers -- Hungary -- Biography. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biographies Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Steinitz, Richard. György Ligeti. Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2003 (OCoLC)645687532
Named Person:	György Ligeti; György Ligeti; György Ligeti; György Ligeti; György Ligeti; György Ligeti
Material Type:	Biography
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Richard Steinitz Find more information about:
ISBN:	1555535518 9781555535513
OCLC Number:	50684611
Notes:	Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 2003.
Description:	xvii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:	From East to West -- The Making of the Man -- Night and Morning: An East European Apprenticeship -- Catching Up -- The Watershed of 1960: International Debut -- Fantasy and Technique -- Distorting Mirrors: Humour and Antilogic -- Distance and Enchantment -- A Gestural Kaleidoscope -- Spider's Web: The Labyrinth of Melodies -- Dis(c)loc(k)ation and Transformation -- The Grand Illusionist -- Alice in Breughelland: A Grotesque Carnival of Sex and Death -- In the midst of life ... -- The Dynamics of Disorder -- The Piano Etudes -- Curiouser and curiouser -- On (Not) Writing Opera -- Productions of Le Grand Macabre.
Responsibility:	Richard Steinitz.

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Fuses biographical and musical analysis to provide a multi-layered portrait of one of the most influential and admired composers of the late twentieth century. Read more...

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