People with Acquired Austrian Citizenship - Naturalised Citizens of Austria, Gyrgy Ligeti, Ivica Vasti, Mark McKoy, Mike Maloy, Aaron Rhodes (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Naturalised Citizens of Austria, Gyrgy Ligeti, Ivica Vasti, Mark Mckoy, Mike Maloy, Aaron Rhodes, Del St. John. Excerpt: Gyrgy Sndor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 June 12, 2006) was a composer, born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles, but to the general public, he is best-known for the various pieces featured in the Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut. Ligeti was born in T rnava-S nmrtin (in Hungarian - Dicsszentmrton, renamed T rnveni in 1945), in the Transylvania region of Romania to a Hungarian Jewish family. Ligeti recalls that his first exposure to languages other than Hungarian came one day while listening to a conversation among the Romanian-speaking town police. Before that he hadn't known that other languages existed. He moved to Cluj (Kolozsvr) with his family when he was 6 and he was not to return to the town of his birth until the 1990s. Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Cluj. In 1943, after the takeover of Northern Transylvania by Hungary following the Second Vienna Award, his education was interrupted when, as a Jew, he was sent to a forced labor brigade by the Horthy regime. His brother, at the age of sixteen, was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp; his parents were both sent to Auschwitz. His mother was the only other survivor of the immediate family. Following the war, Ligeti returned to his studies in Budapest, Hungary, graduating in 1949 from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He studied under Pl Kadosa, Ferenc Farkas, Zoltn Kodly and Sndor Veress. He went on to do ethnomusicological work ... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=145255