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György Ligeti
Hungarian composer (1923-2006)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 28 May 1923
- Died
- 12 June 2006
- Place of birth
- Târnăveni
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- György
- Family name
- Ligeti
- Father
- Sándor Ligeti
- Spouse
- Vera Ligeti
- Child
- Lukas Ligeti
- Movement
- 20th-century classical music
- Genre
- opera
- Occupation
- composer, music educator, university teacher, pianist, musician, librettist, illustrator, conductor
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Awards
- Kossuth Prize, Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna, Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Theodor W. Adorno Award, Balzan Prize, Praemium Imperiale, Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Rolf Schock Prize in Musical Arts, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, Berliner Kunstpreis, Grawemeyer Awards
- birth name
- Ligeti György Sándor
- described by source
- Hamburg Biographies, UbuWeb
- different from
- György Ligeti
- discography
- György Ligeti discography
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- instrument
- piano
- list of works
- list of compositions by György Ligeti
- member of
- European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Romanian Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Académie des beaux-arts
- name in native language
- Ligeti György
- notable work
- Poème symphonique
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- related category
- Category:Compositions by György Ligeti
- student
- Ulf Schirmer, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Ari Angervo, Jan Bark, Silvia Fómina, Gunnar Ahlberg, John Persen, Unsuk Chin, Fuzzy, Yannis Ioannidis
- topic's main category
- Category:György Ligeti
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