György Ligeti

György Ligeti is not afraid of bending rules, and his music may not be the most pleasuring around...
But damn, the pieces do a great job in making the mood in movies, and bending rules...


Atmosphères (1961) is written for large orchestra and is not musically related to the earlier electronic piece of the same name, although some of its aesthetic intentions are similar.
It is seen as a key piece in Ligeti's output, laying out many of the concerns he would explore through the 1960s.

Out of the four elements of music — melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre — the piece almost completely abandons the first three, concentrating on the texture of the sound,
a technique known as sound mass. It opens with what must be one of the largest cluster chords ever written - every note in the chromatic scale over a range of five octaves is played at once. Out of the fifty-six string players ushering in the first chord, no two play the same note.

The piece seems to grow out of this initial massive, but very quiet, chord, with the textures always changing.


Atmosphères:


Lontano:



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