Lontano. Für grosses Orchester. For full orchestra.
Mainz: B. Schott's Schöne, 1967. Ed. 6303. First edition. In original soft cover. 40 p. In fine condition.
Ligeti finished to compose his Requiem in 1965 and planned to write an additional part, that resulted in the piece Lux Aeterna in 1966. This composition is Ligeti’s most sophisticated micropoliphonic work. Lontano is Lux Aeterna's improved and re-composed version. According to Ligeti this piece is a complex, soft structure, with many pianissimo tutti passages and ramified movements of the parts. This piece was used in Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining and also in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.
György Ligeti (1923–2006) was a Hungarian (Transylvanian) born composer. Studied at the Music Academy of Cluj and Budapest. After his graduation he started to collect folk music in Romania and taught composing and counterpointing at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He left Hungary after the revolution in 1956, and started to work at the radio station in Cologne where he made acquaintance with Karlheinz Stockhausen who had a major influence on his art. In 1959 settled down in Vienna and became citizen in 1967. Taught at the Universities of Darmstadt, Stockholm, Stanford and Hamburg.
Under the influence of Stockhausen he started to compose music for electronic instruments like Artikulation and Atmosphères. This gave him reputation in the Western European music scene. After these works he gave up composing electronic music but his experiences with such instruments made and effect on his later compositions.
His music could be characterised as a mixture of Western avant-garde music and Hungarian folk music combined with sense of humour and absurd.
Ligeti’s pieces (Lontano, Lux Aeterna, Requiem) were used as film music – among others – in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut also in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.
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