Întâlniri cu Ligeti

• Main Author: Cornel Ţăranu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Inst. Patrimoniului Cultural (IPC) 2016-10-01
• Series: Arta
• Subjects: Ligeti; composing creation; contemporary music; Zagreb Biennale; intercultural relations
• Online Access: http://artjournal.asm.md/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/3.%C8%9Aaranu.pdf

I had several „direct” meetings with Ligeti, whom I have known and met at the Festival of Darmstadt, in the 1970s, and at a master class in Aix-en-Provence in 1978. The „indirect” meetings were numerous, whether I listened to and analysed most of his works, many of them in the course of composition at the „Gh. Dima” Academy of Music Cluj, or as an interpreter of his music, with works scheduled by „Ars Nova” Ensemble or the Chamber Orchestra of the Cluj Philharmonic, where I conducted the rehearsals of the work „Ramifications” for Zagreb Biennale in 1971. Some of these activities had as echo the two letters received from Ligeti. Another equally important echo was the letter of thanks that he sent to the composer Dora Cojocaru, whose doctoral thesis was devoted to his creation, made under my guidance, and which has had more than his laudatory assessments. After the master classes with Olivier Messaien and the meetings with Iannis Xenakis, my contact with Ligeti, the creator and the man, had a strong impact in my creative work.