György Ligeti : music of the imagination / Richard Steinitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinitz, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ligeti, György, 1923-2006--Criticism and interpretation.

Ligeti, György.

Ligeti, György, 1923-2006.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1 From East to West

1 The Making of the Man 3

2 Night and Morning: An East European Apprenticeship 37

3 Catching Up 72

4 The Watershed of 1960: International Debut 96

Part 2 Fantasy and Technique

5 Distorting Mirrors: Humour and Antilogic 117

6 Distance and Enchantment 140

7 A Gestural Kaleidoscope 167

8 Spider's Web: The Labyrinth of Melodies 179

9 Dis(c)loc(k)ation and Transformation 196

Part 3 The Grand Illusionist

10 Alice in Breughelland: A Grotesque Carnival of Sex and Death 217

11 In the midst of life ... 244

12 The Dynamics of Disorder 266

13 The Piano Etudes 277

14 Curiouser and curiouser 315

15 On (Not) Writing Opera 341

Appendix Productions of Le Grand Macabre 378.

Notes:

Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 2003.

Includes worklist (pages 387-392), bibliographical references (pages 393-404), discography (pages 405-409), and index.

ISBN:

1555535518

OCLC:

50684611