Gyrgy Ligeti by Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx, Benjamin D... - 9781843835509

Gyrgy LigetiOf Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds\nAuthor(s): Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx, Benjamin Dwyer, Ciarn Crilly, Friedemann Sallis, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Ildik Mndi-Fazekas, Jonathan W. Bernard, Louise Duchesneau, Manfred Stahnke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843835509, 978-1843835509\nSynopsis\nThe combination of new insights into Ligeti by people who knew him with new analytical approaches will make this a core publication not only for Ligeti scholars, but also for readers interested in post-war music history and in Hungarian culture.\n\nShortlisted for the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication.\n\nGyrgy Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds- based on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices of the last 50 yZ