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16. György Ligeti’s Music for the Black Masses

György Ligeti was born in 1923, in a village in Transylvania… Obviously there’s more to be said than just that, but it’s where I feel we should start – for Ligeti is another of the composers I leant on heavily … Continue reading

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4. Charles Ives at the river’s edge

Since every writer I know writes – at least on occasions – while listening to music, I assume then that every writer has a sort of secret ‘soundtrack’ that they compile for each book that they author. Certainly a good … Continue reading

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