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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.

György Ligeti

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György Ligeti

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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