György Ligeti

Musica Ricercata is a piano piece written by György Sandor Ligeti, the composer of the 20th century. He composed this piece during his Hungarian period, which is considered to be L...

This article applies the concept of isotopy to music to trace the dynamic appearances and interactions of topics in three works by György Ligeti and Thomas Adès. In contrast to pre...

Lassen sich Werke wie Ligetis Atmosphères oder andere seiner Kompositionen aus den sechziger und frühen siebziger Jahren interpretieren ? Und zwar in einem substantiellen Sinne, de...

This article represents a revised chapter of my book György Ligeti’s Creation in the Stylistic Context of the 20st Century, published in 1999. It shows the divergent and contrastin...

Abstract This chapter discusses dynamic form—form arising from the flux of a designated property, with the retrospective contour of such flux representing the dyn...

Although music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries makes frequent use of non-isochronous meter (meters involving beats of different length, such as 5/4 and 7/8), most studi...

György Márkus, as a leading member of the Budapest School led by György Lukács in Hungary, is closely concerned with aesthetics. His final unfinished writings in political exile in...