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Ligeti festival – ode to an adventurous and idiosyncratic composer

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Thea Derks

The Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006) suffered under several dictatorships. The Nazis killed his father and brother during World War II, and after the war the communists forced him to write bland ‘folk music’. After the Hungarian uprising of 1956 … Continue reading →

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