Ligeti

American  

[lig-i-tee] / ˈlɪg ɪ ti /

noun

1. György Sándor 1923–2006, Austrian composer, born in Hungary.

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Ligeti British  

/ ˈliɡɛti /

noun

1. György (djørdj). 1923–2006, Hungarian composer, resident in Vienna. His works, noted for their experimentalism, include Atmospheres (1961) for orchestra, Volumina (1962) for organ, and a requiem mass (1965)

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Example Sentences

Chin herself left Seoul to study with Ligeti in Europe.

From Los Angeles Times

The orchestra has, of course, had a Ligeti festival.

From Los Angeles Times

A few of György Ligeti’s startlingly strange solo piano numbers from “Musica Ricercata” showed up.

From Los Angeles Times

Written in the 1980s, the piece draws its lifeblood from Ligeti’s remarkable rhythmic sense.

From New York Times

On Thursday, the conductor Susanna Mälkki led the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall in an unusually cohesive program built around the bizarro sound world of Ligeti’s Piano Concerto.

From New York Times