György Ligeti, a Hungarian composer whose witty, inventive and intricately beautiful creations made him one of the most important musical figures of the second half of the 20th century, died Monday at ...

VIENNA, Austria – Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera "Le Grand Macabre" and his work on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A ...

From the archive | 7 May 1974: In a rare interview, Ligeti talks to the Guardian’s Christopher Ford about composition and the use of his music in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey A guide to ...

Lukas Ligeti has had his hands full. In memory of his father, the acclaimed composer György Ligeti, he has been busy with several concurrent commissioned works. "Most of my activities now are under ...

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 ...

György Ligeti’s fiercely difficult piano etude “L’escalier du Diable” (“The Devil’s Staircase”) is dazzling and sinister. Like much of this composer’s music, it is teeming with energy and structurally ...

Last night, Craven had the delightful experience of revisiting an old friend. The location was his living room. And the old friend was Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” There was ...

György Sándor Ligeti, composer: born Dicsöszentmárton, Romania 28 May 1923; Professor for Composition, Hamburg Academy of Music 1973-89; married 1957 Vera Spitz (one son); died Vienna 12 June 2006.

“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, ...

In the summer of 1967, Christiane Kubrick, the wife of Stanley Kubrick, happened to hear a broadcast of György Ligeti’s Requiem on BBC radio. The gorgeous strangeness of the sound and the dense swirl ...

György Ligeti is one of the leading New Music composers. At the 52nd Moers Festival, Lukas Ligeti honors his late father with African sounds — an interest they shared. Lukas Ligeti has had his hands ...

It wasn’t planned, but Santa Barbara will open the New Year by hosting a mini-festival of the fascinating music of György Ligeti. On Friday, January 12, at 7:30 p.m., at the Music Academy of the ...