Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination

by Richard Steinitz

Book Overview

One of the world's best known living composers, Gy rgy S ndor Ligeti is widely acknowledged as the most influential and admired creative figure of the late twentieth century. His brilliantly conceived and challenging pieces, searingly intense at times and full of humor and irony at others, include the orchestral Apparitions and Atmosph res, piano tudes, the opera Le Grand Macabre, and the unaccompanied choral work Lux aeterna, which Stanly Kubrick...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555535518
• ISBN13: 9781555535513
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher