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 ...

“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, ...

Not many classical pianists maintain blogs where they ruminate on everything from eating a terrible bowl of meatballs while on tour with Joshua Bell to seeing Twilight: New Moon (twice) and hearing ...

Driver’s recording of Ligeti’s virtuosity-testing Études is full of insight and exuberance The studies that György Ligeti composed in the last two decades of his life are the most important additions ...

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 Space Odyssey,” died ...

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 ...

Superlative renditions of the composer’s two string quartets illuminate his musical transition from communist Hungary to the western avant garde Some 15 years separate György Ligeti’s two numbered ...

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 ...

On my way to the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood Thursday night for a rare local appearance by Lukas Ligeti, I stopped by Amoeba Music to pick up his new solo CD, “Afrikan Machinery.” It was ...

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 ...