Friedemann Sallis
An introduction to the early works of György Ligeti
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(Berliner Musik Studien 6)Mit Übersetzungen von frühen Texten Ligetis aus dem Ungarischen, 103 Notenbeisp. sowie einem Verzeichnis der Werke Ligetis bis 1956, 296 S., 24 * 17 cm, Hardcover |
Hinter dieser Forschungsarbeit stand die Idee, György Ligetis Entwicklung bis 1956 unter drei Aspekten zu verfolgen: der Entstehung seines Konzepts von Tonalität, seiner Auseinandersetzung mit bestimmten polyphonen Techniken und den formalen Konzepten, die aus beidem erwuchsen. Sallis zeichnet die außergewöhnlich kohärente Entwicklung des Komponisten während dieser Jahre nach, in denen sich Ligetis Kompositionsstil herauskristallisierte.
Abstract by the
author: «It is generally stated that 1956, the year of György
Ligeti’s emigration from Hungary, marked a clear break in his stylistic
development. But it was Ligeti himself who asserted that already 1950 was the
point at which he began to imagine and work towards what has since become his
widely recognised ‹personal style›.
Bartók, dodecaphonic
technique, Stravinsky and the work of the Hungarian poet Sándor
Weöres run like interwoven threads throughout Ligeti’s music of this
crucial period between 1950 and 1956. Later they form the background of his
musical thought. It was the idea of this research following Ligeti’s
development up to 1956 through an analysis of specific works, concentrating
primarily on three characteristic aspects: his evolving concept of tonality,
his evolving exploitation of certain polyphonic techniques and the formal
concepts that grew out of these.
The investigation yields, among other
points, the extraordinary coherence of Ligeti's development during these years
in which his personal style came into focus.»
