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Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it's not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.
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Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
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György Ligeti
Born:
May 28, 1923
Died:
June 12, 2006
(aged 83)
Bio:
György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music.
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