The 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.
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Introduction
"We play with the music and the music plays with us." Sándor Veress and his student György Ligeti - Friedemann Sallis
Transformational Ostinati in György Ligeti's Sonatas for Solo Cello and Solo Viola - Benjamin Dwyer
Magicians of Sound - Seeking Ligeti's Inspiration in the Poetry of Sándor Weöres - Ildikó Mándi-Fazekas and Tiborc Fazekas
"Make Room for the Grand Macabre!" The Concept of Death in György Ligeti's Oeuvre -
Continuum, Chaos and Metronomes - A Fractal Friendship - Heinz-Otto Peitgen
A Kinship Foreseen: Ligeti and African Music. Simha Arom in Conversation - Simha Arom
"Play it like Bill Evans": György Ligeti and Recorded Music - Louise Duchesneau
Rules and Regulation: Lessons from Ligeti's Compositional Sketches - Jonathan W. Bernard
À qui un hommage? The Genesis of the Piano Concerto and Horn Trio - Richard Steinitz
Craft and Aesthetics - The Teacher György Ligeti - Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz
The Hamburg Composition Class - Manfred Stahnke
The Bigger Picture: Ligeti's Music and the Films of Stanley Kubrick - Ciarán Crilly
Invented Homelands: Ligeti's Orchestras - Paul Griffiths