György Ligeti: biography
György Ligeti (Dicsöszenmárton, Hungary, 1923 - Vienna, Austria,
2006)
• composer
György Ligeti was born in Transylvania, Romania (1923). He settled in Vienna in 1959 and, in 1967, became an Austrian citizen. During the sixties Ligeti taught yearly at Darmstadt and at the Stockholm Music Academy. In 1969-70 he was a fellow of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in Berlin and in 1972 he was composer in residence at Stanford University, California. He has been professor of composition at the Hamburg Music Academy since 1973 and resides alternately in Hamburg and Vienna.
György Ligeti
