An irresistible elemental power emanates from the eleven pieces of the Musica Ricercata composed between 1951 and 1953. The early piano work by the famous Hungarian György Ligeti arose from experiment...
18th century ballroom dances.
The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade advanced)
It is fascinating how the famous Hungarian composer skilfully superimposes rhythms which, with shifted accents and different speeds, create a third dimension of hearing, like an optical illusion. The...
Alles klingt hier zunächst ganz leicht. Die Töne hüpfen durch- und übereinander wie von einem Zauberer beschworen. Doch so ganz glatt läuft es nicht, hier und da hakt es, Noten kommen sich in die Quer...
Autograph-Edition, deutsch, mit Spielanweisungen
Ligeti's piano études are some of the most splendid works ever composed for this instrument. Every ambitious player is eventually going to examine these milestones of contemporary music literature. Th...
Frauen- oder Kinderchor (SMezA)
Für 2 Frauen- oder Kinderchöre (SMezA/Mez) a cappella.
Since the time of his childhood in Transylvania, Ligeti had been familiar with both Hungarian and Romanian folk music. He makes reference to approximately fifty folk song arrangements similar to Négy...
Mit jugendlicher und unbeschwerter Ironie entlässt dieses Stück das Publikum mit einem Schmunzeln aus dem Konzert. Ideal für junge oder jung gebliebene Chöre.
Beide Kanons sind im strengen Stil gehalten, wirken aber ganz unterschiedlich: Während der erste das Strömen des Flusses in tonaler Harmonik illustriert, versinnbildlicht der zweite (für Frauenchor ge...
Ligeti illustre d'abord la transition de la nuit au jour par un double canon à huit voix, puis dans un style s'approchant de plus en plus du motet. Avec des onomatopées comme le chant du coq, le tic-t...
Ligeti illustrated the transition from low midnight to bright day initially with an eight-voice double canon, then in an increasingly motetic style. With onomatopoeia, like the cock crow, the ticking...
Ligeti wrote this piece during his studies, influenced by the style of his role models Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. Time, dynamics and tempo changes provide delightful contrasts in the both modern a...
I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1997. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the 'Secret Political Police' which have been arranged (...
2-3stimmigen Kinderchor (Frauenchor, ad lib. Männerchor) a cappella
Diese Faksimile-Ausgabe stellt eine vorläufige Fassung der Etüden dar.
This is not a conventional collection of harmless little piano pieces but rather a thought-provoking idiosyncratic curio in homage to David Tudor.
'Apparently the viola is just a somewhat larger violin, simply tuned a fifth lower. In reality though, there is a world of difference between the two instruments.' - The composer lends weight to his a...
This solo sonata was written between 1948 and 1953. The two opposing movements Dialogo and Capriccio follow the generally accepted slow-fast principle, with the second movement being inspired, accordi...
Im Hinblick auf einige später komponierte Werke kommt dem Horntrio, als 'Hommage ß Brahms' bezeichnet, eine Schlüsselfunktion zu. Spektakulär an diesem Werk ist, allgemein gesagt, die Arbeit mit prägn...
Requiem made a powerful impression at its Stockholm premiere in 1965, and it went on to win the Bonn Beethoven Prize in 1967.
Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...
György Ligetis 'Duo' für Violine und Klavier, das mit dieser Ausgabe erstmals publiziert wird, entstand im Dezember 1946, während seines Studiums an der Franz Liszt-Musikakademie in Budapet. Ligeti be...
These six character pieces come from Ligeti's famous piano cycle 'Musica ricercata'. Now wild, now cheerful, now contemplative, now excited - each of these miniatures is an unmistakable gem.The minima...
When Ligeti taught composition at the University of Stockholm in the 1960s, he met his famous Swedish fellow composer Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985). Ligeti wrote this musical greeting on the occasion...
The use of this popular instrument adds an intriguing and fascinating dimension to these movements taken from a collection of early piano pieces.
In his Hamburg Concerto Ligeti, inspired by the tonal possibilities of the natural horn, explores alternatives to the well-tempered tonal system. In the orchestra piece he juxtaposes the solo horn wit...
This work, composed in 1990 at the suggestion of the violinist Saschko Gawriloff, is in the tradition of great virtuoso violin concertos. Originally consisting of three movements, the work was revised...
Those familiar with Ligeti's vocal compositions will be surprised by this seemingly simple and plain musical miniature after a poem by Hölderlin. Even though composed during the same period as the 'No...
Ein Stück, das man in Stresssituationen wohl besser nicht hört. Continuum' von György Ligeti ist eines der berühmtesten Werke der 1960er Jahre, ein Klassiker der Moderne. Entspannen kann man sich dabe...
Widmung / Dedication: dédiée à Volker Banfield
Stimmensatz - Klavier, 2 Sopran-Blockflöten, 5 Schlagzeuge, 4 Violinen I, 4 Violinen II, 4 Violinen III, 3 Violoncelli, 2 Kontrabässe
Streicher-Ergänzungssatz - 2 Sopran-Blockflöten, 2 Violinen I, 2 Violinen II, 2 Violinen III, 2 Violoncelli, Kontrabass
This work, regarded as a homage to Brahms, has a key position within Ligeti's oeuvre. It is especially notable for the pithy way in which the memorable thematic material is shaped into precisely defin...
The formal thinking behind the piece is based on the interaction between individually determined periodic rhythms and a cumulative polyrhythmic overall structure. Although the overall rhythmic structu...
SSOLO - MSOLO - SMATB - 3.3.3.2 - 4.3.Tromba bassa.3.1 - Schlz. - Celesta. - Streicher. Sopran solo, Mezzosopran solo, Gemischter Chor, Orchester - Klavierauszug
I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1997. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the “Secret Political Police” which have been arranged (...
