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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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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 |
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. |
Abstract:
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.
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