The Hungarian escaped two murderous regimes, wrote pieces to be played on metronomes and car horns, and depicted inner and outer space to Stanley Kubrick. Now, in his centenary year, the Proms will ...

On November 7 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush the liberal revolution led by Imre Nagy. The populace took cover in basements to avoid the gunfire and shellbursts – but one man had ...

It takes all of about five seconds before you realise that Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre is an opera of the unexpected. The piece starts with a prelude – a conventional enough ...

György Ligeti, the Austrian composer who died yesterday aged 83, did more than almost any other avant-garde composer to make his type of music accessible, bringing wit and humour into his exploration ...

It sounded like the future: rock and classical crossed and combined in a May 20, 2011 concert at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The evening of premieres and rarely heard works by Jonny ...

Frieder Bernius, leader of the Stuttgart Chamber Choir, was taught by a member of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart whose founder and director in turn was the great Clytus Gottwald. Gottwald not only ...

Most classical musicians get their start at an early age. You know the story: They spend their youth training, in front of a piano, with some gray-haired instructor barking over them. Lukas Ligeti ...

The science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of ninety in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Although Clarke had no active role in the world of classical music, he was connected to ...

Austrian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, whose music appeared in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died aged 83. He was known for his avant garde compositions, including the 1962 piece Poeme Symphonique, ...

“Godzilla,” currently rampaging through cinemas around the world, is the latest movie to resurrect Japan’s most fearsome monster creation. The recent Hollywood blockbuster, directed by Gareth Edwards, ...

Transcending the boundaries of genre, the Austrian, New-York-City-based composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti has developed a musical style of his own that draws upon downtown New York experimentalism, ...