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    Le Grand Macabre (completed 1977, revised 1996) is the third stage production by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, and his only major stage-work. Previously...
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    György Ligeti (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    he later dubbed micropolyphony. After writing his "anti-anti-opera" Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti shifted away from chromaticism and towards polyrhythm for his...
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    by Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien Le Grand Macabre, opera written by György Ligeti (Stockholm 1978) Danse Macabre, song, 1984, by Celtic Frost, Swiss...
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  • Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a symphonic poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It premiered 24 January 1875. It...
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    Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic in performances of György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and directed by Peter Sellars. He sang...
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  • the messenger in his Medea (2010), Prince Go-Go in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1978), the title role in Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1983), Claire in...
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  • (Strauss) Aida, Aida (Verdi) Alice Ford, Falstaff (Verdi) Amanda/Clitoria, Le Grand Macabre (Ligeti) Amelia, Un ballo in maschera, (Verdi) Angelica, Suor Angelica...
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  • (Rossini) Bertalda, Undine (Lortzing) Chief of the Secret Police Gepopo, Le Grand Macabre (Ligeti) Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (Mozart) Elettra, Idomeneo (Mozart)...
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  • exceptionally difficult dual role of Venus and Chief of the Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. Nekhames was born in Russia in 1995. As a child she performed in the...
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  • New York Times review of Le Grand Macabre New York Magazine review of Le Grand Macabre TimeOut NY review of Le Grand Macabre New York Magazine review...
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  • Britten: Noye's Fludde Gyorgy Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite Jerry Goldsmith: The Blue...
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  • (2009). "Signification ofParody and the Grotesque in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre". Music Theory Spectrum. 31/1: 26–56. doi:10.1525/mts.2009.31.1.26...
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    Preludes on Polish Church Hymns: Dies Irae (1867) György Ligeti – Le Grand Macabre (1974–77) Franz Liszt – Totentanz (1849) Jean-Baptiste Lully – Dies...
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    trumpet as one of Nekrotzar's "Entourage" instruments in his opera Le Grand Macabre. The bass trumpet is usually notated in the treble clef. The bass trumpet...
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  • marked ffffff (6 fs) that progresses to a ffffffff (8 fs) and his opera Le Grand Macabre has ffffffffff (10 fs) with a stroke of the hammer. On Music, one of...
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  • Taylor collaborates with Giants Are Small on opera productions such as Le Grand Macabre by the New York Philharmonic. In the world of dance, his designs have...
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    exponents would be: We Come to the River by Hans Werner Henze (1976), Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti (1978), Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm (1979) and Un...
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    (1963–65) Clocks and Clouds, for 12 female voices and orchestra (1973) Le Grand Macabre (1975–77, second version 1996) Glissandi (1957) Artikulation (1958)...
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    François d'Assise, Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, John Adams's and Alice Goodman's Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer...
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    in Paris calls for the use of 4 taxi horns. György Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre features two "Car Horn Preludes" scored for 12 bulb horns, each one...
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    such as his 1988 concerto for piano second movement and his opera Le Grand Macabre (1977). Peter Maxwell Davies uses it in the third movement of his Symphony...
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    Artistic Director of Helsinki Festival 1997 – Conducted Ligeti's opera, Le Grand Macabre, at the Salzburg Festival with the Philharmonia Orchestra 1997 – Gave...
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  • Götterdämmerung, Wagner, 1876 Goyescas, Granados, 1916 The Grand Duke, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1896 Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti, 1978 The Greater Good, or the Passion...
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  • Gavin Bryars's Medea, and the revised version of György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. Cole was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied sociology and anthropology...
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  • role in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise, Nekrotzar in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Claggart in Britten's Billy Budd, John Adams' El Niño, Nick Shadow...
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  • Retrieved 27 August 2022. Paul Griffiths (2002) [1992]. "Grand Macabre, Le ('The Grand Macabre')". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article...
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    Sophie and Zerbinetta, but also for contemporary music such as Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. Hershkowitz was born in Los Angeles to a family that had lived in...
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  • Vivaldi's Gloria, Ligeti's Requiem and Le Grand Macabre, George Crumb's Star-Child, Amy Beach's Grand Mass, and Debussy's Le Martyre de saint Sébastien. Thomas...
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    Constitution of the Soviet Union to each republic's laws. The opera Le Grand Macabre, composed by György Ligeti, received its world premiere at the Königliche...
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  • the Sublime and the Ridiculous: A Study of Parody in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Sewell, Amanda J, [5] The Bizarre World of Butoh, San Francisco Weekly...
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