György Ligeti's Cultural Identities

Contents

• Introduction
• Amy Bauer and Marton Kerekfy
• Part I, Creative Personality and Aesthetics
• 1 Music in the Technological Era
• Gyoergy 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 Gyoergy 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 Tiplea Temes
• 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