Love, love, love the music of Ligeti. I don't believe he is languishing in obscurity. I have three box sets of his material all on well known record labels including DG, Sony, and Teldec. The 5 disc set on Teldec is a great place to get acquainted with his music.

Ligeti was born in Romania (not in Hungary). By the Treaty of Trianon (1920) that part (Transylvania) of the former Hungarian Kingdom (Austro-Hungarian Empire) was part of Romania. So technically, he was born into a Hungarian family in Romania.

@sefard777

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed. As a Romanian, that opening remark kind of hurt.

Wow! This video is so informative and wonderful! Please keep them coming and share the references/further reading and resources as well! Your book shelf looks amazing!

One of my all time favourite composers...thank you!!!

Finally!!! This is gonna be awesome, I love Ligeti! :)))))

Fascinating, what an interesting composer. Thanks for sharing, Ligeti seems like the type of artist I'm going to love learning more about

Thanx, Maestro 🌹🌹🌹

Ty ty for this great video about the greatest bad boy of all time.

i m learning his devils staircase, man is it tough but also fun...how the heck could he visualize the notes at that crazy fast tempo...genius.

I really love Ligeti's later works because I always get inspired by the way he uses traditional chords, all-interval ideas (simple motifs that contain all the intervals i.e. in Ligeti's Horn Trio) and the weird quasi-diatonic constructs that he makes out of those motifs (as in the Nonsense Madrigals). The main "all-interval idea" of the Horn Trio contains A-Ab (minor second) B-A (major second) Eb-C (minor third) G-B (major third) Eb in the second chord to Ab in the third (perfect fourth) and Eb-A (tritone) I also like the indirect reference Ligeti made to Ockeghem and Gesualdo in near the end of "The Alphabet".

3:29 little correction: The last movement is an Arrangement of the 10th (Second to last) piece from musica ricercata, not the 11th (last) one. Other than that, Great video! 😄

Hey there Mr. Little. Thank you for posting this! Gyorgy Ligeti is one of those composers who should really be pulled out from obscurity... P.S. - Do any of Ligeti's early works exist? I mean, he left some of his compositions while fleeing from Hungary in 1956, so... If so, which pieces are those?

@ClassicalNerd

3 жыл бұрын

Plenty exist! The most famous are probably his first String Quartet, the Sonata for Solo Cello, and _Musica Ricercata._ All are pieces that he wrote in Hungary (an era of his life he called the "prehistoric Ligeti").

Nice video. You should make a video about Roslavets.

@ClassicalNerd

7 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more! I'll put it in the request queue.

Hungarian Rock is my favourite piece of harpsichord music. 😋

How about to make a video abput Cyril Scott? Ps. You're awesome!

@ClassicalNerd

6 жыл бұрын

Scott is now in the request pool.

@JustMiluna

6 жыл бұрын

Classical Nerd Yuppii,thanks a lot 💕

@zacharydetrick7428

5 жыл бұрын

i Love his Symphony no 3

I wonder if he composed the piano etudes at the piano or if it was done at the composers desk?

Oopps

Thanks to this channel I checked out Ligeti’s horn trio; if it has romanticism in it then I have a hole in the head!

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

Compared to a lot _else_ Ligeti wrote? Absolutely.

Can you do a video of James Macmillan?

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

James is still smack-dab in the middle of his career, so I doubt my ability to make a proper, holistic retrospective.

Who are you talking about in 6:20 ? I cant understand

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Johannes Ockeghem.

Can you do Scarlatti?

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Which one?

@tolower486

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd Domenico please

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

The request pool has been updated.

Is it just me or does Ligeti look a lot like actor Klaus Kinski?

Where is Kabalevsky

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

Wherever he's buried, I'd imagine.

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

nice

@annakimborahpa

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe somewhere practicing Kabbalah?

So Gyorgy escaped Ligeti split from Hungary during the failed 1956 revolution? Too bad he didn't emigrate to Italy where he could have bestowed his last name upon a new pasta dish that mirrored the goulash texture of his compositions.