György Ligeti quotes - page 2

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. (György Ligeti)

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

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I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

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I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

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Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

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There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

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However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

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Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

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Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

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It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

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György Ligeti

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Occupation: Hungarian Composer
Born: May 28, 1923
Died: June 12, 2006
Quotes count: 35
Wikipedia: György Ligeti

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