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Austrian composer Gyorgy Ligeti dead at 83, his publishing company says
10:20:08 EDT Jun 12, 2006
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera Le Grand Macabre and his workon the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Monday.He was 83.
Ligeti, a Holocaust survivor and celebrated as one of the world's leading 20th century musical pioneers, died in Vienna after a long illness, saidChristian Krauscheid, a spokesman for his publisher, Schott Music inGermany.
Ligeti (pronounced lig'-ih-tee) was born in 1923 to Hungarian parents in the predominantly ethnic Hungarian part of Romania's Transylvania region. Hisfather and brother later were murdered by the Nazis. He took Austriancitizenship after fleeing his ex-communist homeland and became known for Macabre, which he wrote in 1978.
He began studying music under Ferenc Farkas at the conservatory in Cluj,Romania, in 1941, and continued his studies in Budapest. But in 1943, he wasarrested as a Jew and sentenced to forced labour for the rest of the Second World War.
10:20:08 EDT Jun 12, 2006
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera Le Grand Macabre and his workon the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Monday.He was 83.
Ligeti, a Holocaust survivor and celebrated as one of the world's leading 20th century musical pioneers, died in Vienna after a long illness, saidChristian Krauscheid, a spokesman for his publisher, Schott Music inGermany.
Ligeti (pronounced lig'-ih-tee) was born in 1923 to Hungarian parents in the predominantly ethnic Hungarian part of Romania's Transylvania region. Hisfather and brother later were murdered by the Nazis. He took Austriancitizenship after fleeing his ex-communist homeland and became known for Macabre, which he wrote in 1978.
He began studying music under Ferenc Farkas at the conservatory in Cluj,Romania, in 1941, and continued his studies in Budapest. But in 1943, he wasarrested as a Jew and sentenced to forced labour for the rest of the Second World War.
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