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György Ligeti
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Of Hungarian-Jewish origin, Ligeti made his career in Hungary until 1956, when he moved to Vienna, now to be influenced by contact with more experimental Western techniques of composition, notably with work at the electronic studios in Cologne. His music now achieved a wider international reputation, incorporating contemporary techniques and experiment in a musical idiom that has proved both influential and palatable. 
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It was with compositions such as Atmosphères in 1961 that Ligeti began to win a wider reputation. Other orchestral works that have aroused interest include a Chamber Concerto for thirteen instruments, the Cello Concerto and the Concerto for flute, oboe and strings. Lontano, written in 1967, has a place in contemporary repertoire, with Ramifications, for twelve strings and San Francisco Polyphony.
Ligeti's Requiem, completed in 1965, makes considerable use of counterpoint and is a moving and colourful work. It was followed by Lux aeterna, a setting of the last part of the Requiem Mass, for sixteen solo voices, in which he again makes considerable use of the technique of canon.
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