I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  I don't use old music.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  First of all I listen to music. I like music.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.