VIENNA, Austria – 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 ...

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 ...

It wasn’t planned, but Santa Barbara will open the New Year by hosting a mini-festival of the fascinating music of György Ligeti. On Friday, January 12, at 7:30 p.m., at the Music Academy of the ...

Friday night’s concert at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts was an odd affair that showed a running down of the seasonlong series devoted to the music of Gyorgy ...

“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, ...

Saying a proper goodbye is an art. Ludovic Morlot plans to conclude his current Seattle Symphony season with a lot more than a bang. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony ends with one of the most jubilant, ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, a musical giant respected for his ability to simultaneously honor and modernize musical traditions and a cult pop figure whose work was used in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” to evoke ...

György Ligeti’s fiercely difficult piano etude “L’escalier du Diable” (“The Devil’s Staircase”) is dazzling and sinister. Like much of this composer’s music, it is teeming with energy and structurally ...