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Eliminieren und Evozieren. Einige Anmerkungen zum Sprechen über György Ligetis Atmosphères
No full textThis article reflects the ‘verbal history’ of György Ligeti’s most prominent work, the orchestral piece Atmosphères from 1961. It discusses previously unknown notes from the György Ligeti collection at the Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel as well as official comments by Ligeti. In addition, it takes into account the secondary literature, beginning with Harald Kaufmann’s influential text “Strukturen im Strukturlosen” (1964), which was partly co-authored by Ligeti. The main aspects in focus are the composer’s own distinction within the contemporary music scene, his way of describing his work in terms of perception, and his handling of the concepts of effect and structure
Verwendung, Verleugnung, Wiederentdeckung – Ligeti und ethnische Musiken
No full textRegarding György Ligeti’s relation to ethnic music, his oeuvre can be divided into three periods. Until 1956 he used East European folk music in the manner of Hungarian composition of the 1940s and 1950s, but upon leaving Hungary he apparently rejected folkloristic inspiration. In his late period from 1978 on, however, ethnic musics became again central to his creative work, albeit in a basically different way than in his youth. This article provides an overview of Ligeti’s early folkloristic pieces and a brief characterization of his use of elements of Eastern European folklore in Le Grand Macabre, Hungarian Rock, Passacaglia ungherese and the Horn Trio. Finally, it traces back Ligeti’s “lamento melody,” that appears for the first time in the last movement of the Horn Trio, to certain types of the Hungarian folk lament. Ligeti’s references to folklore do not mean an idealization of his past, but are rather signs of an ambivalent attitude toward his own roots, in which nostalgic longing, ironic distancing, and desperate mourning are equally present
„Ein violetter Ort von blecherner Beschaffenheit und ebensolchem Klang“ Ligetis Synästhesien
No full textThe article focuses on Ligeti’s synaesthesia: after referring to some early ‘synaesthetic’ compositions often mentioned by the composer, the phenomenon of synaesthesia in general is examined. It turns out that Ligeti’s fondness of synaesthesia has to be seen in relation to his ‘postmodern’ emphasis on spatiality in music – and thereby with his attempts to overcome transitoriness and death
The Informal Use of Time as a Component of Multicultural Regional Identity in Transcarpathia (Ukraine)
No full textDer kanonisierte Ligeti
No full textBy the middle of the 1960s, only a couple of years after his defection from Hungary to Austria and West Germany, Ligeti had already achieved canonical status in Western circles of contemporary music, even if more in German speaking countries than in English speaking ones. As a by-product of this extremely quick process, Ligeti was identified with the new musical language of ‚Klangkomposition‘ (sound-mass music) and micropolyphonic texture, an identification that has stuck with him since — the works written from 1958 to 1967, and Atmosphères in particular, remain by far his best known and most frequently cited compositions. If canonization in itself must be regarded to a certain degree as desirable to any composer, in Ligeti’s case there were unwanted effects of this development. Although the composer himself contributed to it by his writings, his early identification as a composer of sound masses not only narrowed the reception of his oeuvre but affected his later self-image as a composer, too
Ungarn lernt Ligeti kennen: persönliche Begegnungen und kompositorische Rezeption
No full textHungarian composers in the past very rarely reflected on György Ligeti’s oeuvre. Concentrating on their own struggles with musical modernism and avant-garde after 1956, they considered Ligeti one of the most important Hungarian composers of their time, but didn’t really understand his concepts and techniques. My study aims at interpreting this misunderstanding through the analysis of orchestral works by Ligeti’s best Hungarian friend, András Szőllősy (1921–2007). For contemporary Hungarian musicians and critics, Szőllősy’s compositions represented the counterpart of the great émigré’s life work
„nicht tonal und nicht atonal“ Zur Bedeutung der Quinten in Ligetis Etüde Nr. 8 „Fém“
No full textLigeti’s claim that his etudes are neither tonal nor atonal can be demonstrated with the functions of the fifths in the etude No. 8 “Fém.” The fifths are integrated into the musical relationships partly in a traditional and partly in a modern manner. Customarily, the interval of a fifth is added to single tones in order to establish tonal spaces and implying fundamentals. A peculiarly modern aspect is the use of fifths as parts of the overtone series
Ende von Anfang an Wege zu György Ligetis San Francisco Polyphony
No full textGyörgy Ligeti’s comments on his last large orchestral piece San Francisco Polyphony show a remarkable understatement, if not neglect, of this work. This paper intends to find reasons for this attitude. It analyzes the correlation between title and substance, in particular the description of the work as being polyphonic, showing that the piece is less polyphonic than it is melodic or even thematic, resulting from coherent stylistic development as well as from an innate spatial conception rather than from a switchback to 19th-century procedures. At the end, San Francisco Polyphony proves to be a very personal comment on the state of the post-war musical avant-garde and the discussion about postmodernism in music
Allusion — Einschluss — Gekerbter Raum. Traditionelle Residuen bei Ligeti
No full textTonal residua and other remnants of older musical styles and idioms seem to be inevitably bound to Ligeti’s musical language. The numerous ways of integrating the stylistic heterogeneity in his works are extremely individual and may be seen as part of each work’s specific narrative. In his early essay about musical form, Ligeti interprets Adorno’s idea of material as a parameter of form either as congealed time or as traces of musical memory. This article aims to show the different levels and qualities of musical thought Ligeti deals with by analyzing the different layers of traditional strata in his music
