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Title: Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination by Richard Steinitz ISBN: 1-55553-551-8 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Guide to Ligeti's Music
Comment: Richard Steinitz has written a book that all lovers of Ligeti's music should read. It might well persuade others to try the music, too. It is a book long in the making, Steinitz has been in contact with Ligeti over years, and has had extensive time with him to check details.
There is a mass of biographical information, especially about the early years in Transylvania and in the whirling political confusion of WW2 and the immediate post-war years. Fascinating stuff, although this isn't a biography in the sense of trying to investigate all the ins and outs of Ligeti's psyche (and all the better for that!)
It has to be said that if, like me, you are not musically trained, then some of the analysis is pretty tough. There were places where I had no choice but to skip. Sometimes, as in the discussion of the piano etudes, the sheer density of the musicological argument is daunting.
But I've still given the book 5 stars. When the technicalities got too much I put down the book and listened to a recording of the music instead. Then I found that the ideas I could take from the discussion were stimulating a richer hearing. My ears were bigger! For example, I have never put "San Francisco Polyphony" that high in my favourites of Ligeti's work - but I need to reconsider that now I've read and re-listened. The turn in Ligeti's work with the Horn Trio is clearly established, as are other key turning points in Ligeti's oeuvre and this enables a crtitical, historical, approach to the music.
So I've been helped to sudy (by ear) Ligeti in greater depth. Richard Steinitz, founder of the wonderful and important Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in Britain, has already done so much for modern music - and this book is another invaluable contribution.
We can only hope that Ligeti has a late efflorescence (like Elliot Carter), and that this book becomes out-dated and needs to be updated regularly.
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Title:The Ligeti Project IV: Hamburg Concerto (Horn Concerto) / Double Concerto / Ramifications / Requiem ASIN: B00008UVCE Publisher: Elektra/Asylum Pub. Date: 20 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title:György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard ASIN: B0000029P0 Publisher: Sony Pub. Date: 21 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $10.99 |
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Title: Elliott Carter : Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995 (paperback) by Elliott Carter, Jonathan W. Bernard ISBN: 1580460259 Publisher: Univ of Rochester Pr Pub. Date: 12 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Jonathan Nott ASIN: B00005Y34N Publisher: Elektra/Asylum Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title:The Ligeti Project III: Cello Concerto / Clocks & Clouds / Violin Concerto / Síppal, Dobbal, Nádihegedüvel ASIN: B00006F1P9 Publisher: Elektra/Asylum Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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