LONDON (Reuters Life!) - It starts with a prelude of car horns and ends with the world being destroyed by a comet -- or possibly not. On top of that, a new staging of Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

Instead of cowering and quaking in the face of the apocalypse -- which is obviously what Death himself and his earthly minions would prefer -- György Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" offers an ...

To do what one did best, to cultivate one's patch, that was the thing. Reaching a large public was never a priority for the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who has died aged 83. In that regard, ...

György Ligeti, a Hungarian composer whose witty, inventive and intricately beautiful creations made him one of the most important musical figures of the second half of the 20th century, died Monday at ...

After the mixed reactions to the recent London performances of György Ligeti’s only opera, Le Grand Macabre, it’s good to be reminded of his true position as one of the authentically great figures in ...

Donald Macleod is joined by composer, pianist and teacher George Benjamin, to explore Ligeti's life and music. He introduces keyboard works, including Continuum for harpsichord, which the composer ...