Concerts, talks and foyer events celebrated Ligeti in his centenary year. With pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard at its heart, it was a day that underlined the composer’s extraordinary music and unique ...

The Hungarian escaped two murderous regimes, wrote pieces to be played on metronomes and car horns, and depicted inner and outer space to Stanley Kubrick. Now, in his centenary year, the Proms will ...

Not many classical pianists maintain blogs where they ruminate on everything from eating a terrible bowl of meatballs while on tour with Joshua Bell to seeing Twilight: New Moon (twice) and hearing ...

On November 7 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush the liberal revolution led by Imre Nagy. The populace took cover in basements to avoid the gunfire and shellbursts – but one man had ...

“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, ...

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, 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 ...

György Ligeti, the Austrian composer who died yesterday aged 83, did more than almost any other avant-garde composer to make his type of music accessible, bringing wit and humour into his exploration ...

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 ...

Transcending the boundaries of genre, the Austrian, New-York-City-based composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti has developed a musical style of his own that draws upon downtown New York experimentalism, ...

Most classical musicians get their start at an early age. You know the story: They spend their youth training, in front of a piano, with some gray-haired instructor barking over them. Lukas Ligeti ...