Gyorgy Ligeti's Cultural Identities (Hardcover)

Introduction

Amy Bauer and Marton Kerekfy

Part I, Creative Personality and Aesthetics

1 Music in the Technological Era
Gyorgy Ligeti with Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, translated and annotated by Louise Duchesneau

2 ‘…music is a bit like love ? you do it but you don’t talk about it’

Louise Duchesneau

3 The Innate Melodist

Richard Steinitz

4 Ligeti’s Musical Style as Expression of Cultural Trauma

Wolfgang Marx

5 Making It Home? The Natural Sciences as a Site of Belonging in Gyorgy Ligeti’s Music

Frederik Knop

Part II, Influences and Backgrounds

6 Reflections on Ligeti’s Jewish Identity Following the Discovery of New Documents from his Cluj Years

Heidy Zimmermann

7 Ligeti and Romanian Folk Music: An Insight from the Paul Sacher Foundation

Bianca ?iplea Teme?

8 Ligeti and the Beginnings of Bartok Analysis in Hungary

Anna Dalos

9 Bartok, Ligeti and the Innovative Middle Road

Peter Edwards

10 From Row to Klang: Ligeti’s Reception of Anton Webern’s Music

Ingrid Pustijanac

Part III, Works

11 Genre as Emigre: The Return of the Repressed in Ligeti’s Second Quartet

Amy Bauer

12 Sketches Reflecting the Images of San Francisco

Kyoko Okumura

13 Ironic Self-Portraits? Ligeti’s Hungarian Rock and Passacaglia ungherese

Marton Kerekfy

14 Tragedy and Irony: The Passacaglia of the Violin Concerto

Volker Helbing