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13.06.06
Ligeti ha muerto, ¡viva Ligeti!
En la mañana de ayer, 12 de junio de 2006, moría György Sándor Ligeti, uno de los más grandes compositores de todos los tiempos, a la edad de 83 años.
Estoy lejos de apenarme, la noticia no me coge de sorpresa: llevaba años luchando contra un cáncer qe lo mantenía en silla de ruedas. Lo qe me sorprende es qe su muerte haya tenido la misma (o incluso menor) repercusión en los medios qe la qe en los años noventa tuvo la de compositores bastante menores (Michael Tippett, verbigracia).
Qizá el problema está en qe leo medios españoles. Así me va. Los diarios repiten como loritos los mismos párrafos, e identifican a Ligeti como "el máximo exponente de la música experimental electroacústica de los años 60", cuando sólo se acercó a la música electroacústica en una ocasión.
También se lo reseña por ser casi el compositor de la banda sonora de "2001", de Kubrick. Y se refiere como lo máximo atribuible a Ligeti ese cuento de beatas costureras sobre su demanda a Kubrick por el uso de su música sin permiso. Al parecer le sopló una pasta, cierto. Con eso, los medios lo acaban de convertir en héroe.
Y Kubrick reincidió. Todos tenemos clavado en la cabeza, por ejemplo, el segundo número de la "Musica Ricercata" de Ligeti, repetido hasta la saciedad en "Eyes Wide Shut".
Más qe compositor de bandas sonoras, qe no lo fue, el austriaco de origen húngaro György Ligeti es considerado uno de los continuadores de la escuela de Bartók, la cual heredó y proyectó hacia el futuro. Se paseó por Darmstadt en alguna ocasión, pero nunca comulgó con el rollo de los Boulez y Stockhausen. Su música, a pesar de ello, es de una gran modernidad, basada en, para entendernos, texturas más qe melodías y masas sonoras más qe armonías. Para lograr estos resultados tremendamente complejos empleaba, con una precisión y una sabiduría sin iguales, procedimientos compositivos sencillos, tradicionales y conocidos por cualqier compositor, qe lo ponían de ese modo en relación directa con los maestros del pasado.
Al menos en lo qe respecta a la música de su época gloriosa: "Apparitions", "Atmosphéres", "Lontano", "Requiem". Luego abrazó estilos más antiguos y dicen qe fue considerado "traidor a la vanguardia" por ello. Obviamente eran sólo dos los qe cacareaban tal majadería, los más arriba reseñados Boulez y Stockhausen. Digo.
El genio ha muerto, ¡viva el genio!
A escucharlo a tó meter. Hoy lo merece.
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13.06.06 @ 10:16 Qé gracioso, como en el congreso.
13.06.06 @ 13:11
14.06.06 @ 11:21 After all, music is not a science.
Also I like very much to play the piano - but for myself.
Auer in German means pasture or meadow, and so it became Ligeti because Ligeti in Hungarian means about the same thing.
Because I am pro-capitalist.
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
But the money is more for the young.
But then, in the last generation, it became common for Hungarian Jews to change their names to Hungarian names.
Cezanne is one of my favorites.
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
Hungary has very beautiful folk poetry.
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
I don't really use bars.
I don't use old music.
I have always had an interest in picture puzzles, paradoxes of perception and ideas.
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
I spent my first six years in Dicsoszentmarton, in the heart of Transylvania.
I was very critical of my father's Utopian dreams. I knew would be very worried if he had to live in such a world.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.
My father's name was also Auer.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
There is a great living writer - I know him personally - Sandor Veres. One of the greatest poets, like your. . . but I don't know any great living English poets.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
They are the most complex of ornaments in the arts, like small sea horses, like the Alhambra where the walls are decorated with geometric ornaments of great minuteness and intricacy, or like the Irish Book of Kells, those marvelously decorated borders and capitals.
When I was six we moved to Kolozsvar, which was always one of the centers of Transylvanian life, even in those days, and so I went to primary and secondary school there.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
15.06.06 @ 11:23 In Memoriam Gyorgy Ligeti, assembled from his "Poeme Symphonique"
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