Template Patent Application

Ligeti, the front and self

"On the edge occurs to me the following image: I'm sitting on an airplane, the sky is blue, I see a landscape. Suddenly the plane plunged into a cloud and everything turns gray and white. At first, this gray is interesting because it contrasts with the previous landscape, but soon becomes monotonous. When we left the cloud is again the landscape, which is not the same as before, has changed. With Schoenberg and the Viennese School, after the postwar generation of Darmstadt and Cologne (to which more or less I also belonged), in this century we have pierced the cloud of high entropy. At the precise moment when I leave that cloud, I see, and I say it very critical, we have made a horrible music. We all, my generation (do not exclude myself). That music horrible was the result of twelve-tone music, the total chromaticism. "György Ligeti

Extract of a dialogue between György Ligeti, Manfred Stahnke available HERE .

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