Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

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Gyorgy Ligeti

Profession : Composer

Birth : May 28, 1923

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

Gyorgy Ligeti

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

Gyorgy Ligeti

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

Gyorgy Ligeti

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

Gyorgy Ligeti

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

Gyorgy Ligeti

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

Gyorgy Ligeti