Die Avantgarde war ein Irrtum

His orchestral piece "Atmosphères" was high up on a 20th century hit list - just behind Elvis. György Ligeti was one of the most successful composers of the avant-garde, from which he increasingly distanced himself. Like almost everything in his work, this distance is due to his biography, as Ligeti, a Hungarian Jew, experienced the terrorist ideology of the Nazis and Stalinists like no other composer in New Music. If Hector Berlioz's life was a novel, then Ligeti's was a thriller. Moreover, he was extremely critical of himself and others, and many celebrities were hit by the arrows of his mockery. A feast of invective.

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