Top 39 Ligeti Quotes
#1. This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#3. All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.
Pierre Boulez
#4. After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#6. I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#7. Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#9. Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#10. Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#11. New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#12. Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#13. I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#14. I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#15. I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#16. Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#17. I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#18. I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#19. When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#20. I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#21. I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#22. There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#23. My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#24. If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#25. It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#26. I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#27. However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#28. For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#29. But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#30. Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#32. Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#34. In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#35. People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#36. But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#38. In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#39. Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it's not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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