{"product_id":"gyorgy-ligeti-music-of-the-imagination-9781555535513","title":"Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the world's best known living composers, Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti is widely acknowledged as the most influential and admired creative figure of the late twentieth century. His brilliantly conceived and challenging pieces, searingly intense at times and full of humor and irony at others, include the orchestral Apparitions and Atmosph?res, piano ?tudes, the opera Le Grand Macabre, and the unaccompanied choral work Lux aeterna, which Stanly Kubrick actually pirated for the film soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Richard Steinitz fuses biographical, stylistic, and technical analysis to examine thoroughly the evolution of Ligeti's innovative music. Drawing extensively on his own private conversations with the composer as well as on many published and recorded interviews, Steinitz places Ligeti's extraordinary body of work within the context of his complex personal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Steinitz is a composer and Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield. He is the founder and former Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He lives in England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northeastern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670821540114,"sku":"9781555535513","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_481e6278-a824-4f23-9c97-ff51c343280c.jpg?v=1733789964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gyorgy-ligeti-music-of-the-imagination-9781555535513","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}