‎Wolfgang Marx (ed)‎
‎I Don't Belong Anywhere: György Ligeti at 100‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 300 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 8 col., 60 musical examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602400.‎

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‎Summary 2023 marks the centenary of Ligeti's birth, an appropriate moment to take stock of the relevance this composer has in the contemporary world, to assess where he ?belongs? today and how our views of his ?uvre and our understanding of his position in musical and cultural history have evolved. What do Ligeti and his music have to say to us in our post-postmodernist age? Why do his works still fascinate us so much? This book offers new readings of core compositions such as «Aventures», «Lontano», «Le Grand Macabre», the «Hölderlin Fantasies» and «Galamb borong». It also reassesses the context and reception of Ligeti's works, including the influence of Romanian music (not least in his childhood), musical life in Hungary between 1945 and 1956, the ways in which his thinking was influenced by his experience of different soundscapes, yet also the surprisingly widespread use of his music in film and TV (beyond the usual suspect). Finally it presents new sources discovered or made available only recently: letters exchanged between Ligeti and Aliute Mecys in 1972, the correspondence between the composer and his publisher Schott, and an extended BBC interview from 1997. TABLE OF CONTENTS Wolfgang Marx Introduction Ligeti's Music Benjamin R. Levy Condensed Expression and Compositional Technique in György Ligeti's Aventures and Beyond Britta Sweers Listening to Lontano: The Auditory Perception of Ligeti's Sound Textures Pierre Michel - Maryse Staiber Rediscovering the Meaning of Words with Hölderlin: About Drei Phantasien by György Ligeti Manfred Stahnke 4e Dove and the Bear: 'Galamb Borong' and the Connection to 'Ars Subtilior' Peter Edwards Analysing the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Apparitions of the Past and Future Context and Reception Ewa Schreiber Listening (to) Ligeti: Tracing Sound Memories and Sound Images in the Composer's Writings Márton Kerékfy 'Functional Music' and Cantata for the Festival of Youth: New Data on Ligeti's Works from His Budapest Years Bianca ?iplea Teme? Mourning in Folk Style: Ligeti's Reliance on Romanian Laments Julia Heimerdinger György Ligeti's Film Music beyond Stanley Kubrick Reading Ligeti Vita Gruodyt? Letters from Stanford: György Ligeti to Aliut? Me?ys Heidy Zimmermann More than Printing Scores: Ligeti and His Post-1960 Publishers Joseph Cadagin «Everything Is Chance»: György Ligeti in Conversation with John Tusa, 28 October 1997 Abstracts and Biographies Index of Names‎