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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 →
8. Bela Bartok & love’s death
At one fraught stage in The Possessions of Doctor Forrest our eponymous (anti-) hero finds himself alone at home, enveloped in evening gloom, “listening to Bartok’s ‘String Quartet #1′, staring out through my window at an orb of a moon … Continue reading →
