In Ep. 19, The Life of György Ligeti, pt. I "Down the Rabbit Hole" we explore the life of György Ligeti from 1923 to 1957. During this period, Ligeti and his fellow Hungarians would suffer under political domination and from social oppression by the Nazis and then the Russian Soviets. Fed up with their totalitarian overlords, the Hungarians in 1956 broke into revolt. Ligeti, who lived a life of obscurity behind the Iron Curtain, would flee his homeland with his wife, Vera, for the Free West. After a long and difficult flight to freedom, and leaving Vera safely in Vienna, Ligeti would embark on another journey, this time to Cologne, and wind up on the doorstep of the messiah of new music himself, who was waiting for him with open arms... Please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Like our Facebook page too! https://www.facebook.com/thegreatcomposerspodcast/ Want to help out? Donate to the show! https://www.gofundme.com/manage/thegreatcomposerspodcast www.kevinnordstrom.com Music heard in this episode: (All music clips are composed by Ligeti unless otherwise noted) 1. Gesang der Unterdrückten (Song of the Oppressed) - composed by the composer..... 2. Musica Ricercata mvt. 4 Tempo di Valse 3. La Traviata, Act I – Giuseppe Verdi 4. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra no. 2 - Béla Bartók, the incomparable Ivry Gitlis on violin 5. Musica Ricercata mvt. 1, Sostenuto – Misurato – Prestissimo 6. Métamorphoses Nocturne (opening portion) 7. Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youth) – Karlheinz Stockhausen 8. Musica Ricercata mvt. 7, Cantabile, molto legato All material in this episode is meant for educational purposes only. The Great Composers Podcast is a classical music podcast BIBLIOGRAPHY György Ligeti Episodes 19-21 -Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx, György Ligeti: of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2011 -Griffiths, Paul. The Contemporary Composers: György Ligeti. London: Robson Books, Ltd. 1983, -Haskins, Rob. John Cage. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2012. -Kerékfy, Márton. "A "New Music" from Nothing: György Ligeti's Musica ricercata" Studia Musicologica, Vol. 49, No. 3/4 (Sep., 2008). pp. 203-230. -Kurtz, Michael. trans. Richard Toop. Stockhausen: A Biography. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1994. -Morgan, Robert P. Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. -Nicholls, David. John Cage. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. -Nordstrom, Kevin. "Transformation and Distortion: The Process of Variation in Ligeti's Viola Sonata" The Journal of the American Viola Society, vol. 33 no. 2 (Dec. 2017). -Peters, Günter and Schreiber, Mark. "'...How Creation is Composed': Spirituality in the Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen" Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 37 no. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 96-131 -Peyser, Joan. Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma. New York: Schirmer Books, 1976. -Peyser, Joan. To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe Since The Rite of Spring. New York: Billboard Books, 1999. -Sebestyen, Victor. Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. -Steinitz, Richard. György Ligeti: Music of the Imagination. Boston: North Eastern University Press, 2003. -Toop, Richard. György Ligeti. Singapore: Phaidon Press Limited, 1999.
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