{"product_id":"13047-ligeti-gyorgy-autograph-musical-manuscript-of-an-unpublished-composition-for-orchestra","title":"Ligeti, Gyorgy. (1923–2006) Autograph Musical Manuscript of an Unpublished Composition for Orchestra","description":"\u003cdiv title=\"Page 51\" style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"\"\u003eAutograph musical sketch from an apparently unpublished work for orchestra by the important avant-garde composer. According to the accompanying photocopied letter from the composer dated December 21, 1963, the manuscript is the  opening pages of a 1958 orchestra work, which he decided not to continue. The verso of the third sheet, however, bears the title in his hand \"Apparitions II,\" and indeed some of the material in the preceding pages is highly reminiscent of the second section \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eAgitato in the work of that name, composed in of the same year, with similarly muted and jittery music for string orchestral groups in different meters.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e3 pp., \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cfont face=\"\" style=\"\" size=\"\" color=\"\"\u003elarge vertical folio format with 32 staves. Written in pencil with some eraser marks. Slight toning and foxing, with the upper edge slightly trimmed, else fine.  Autograph musical material by Ligeti is of the utmost rarity. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"When Ligeti left Hungary, in 1956, he took with him his scores and also his hopes—in particular, his hopes for a kind of music corresponding to a dream he had had as a boy, one of lying in his bed amid a fantastic silken web in which strange creatures and inert objects were suspended. He had tried to realize this dream in sound in Hungary, but lacked the technical means. In 1957 he tried again. Finally, in 1958-9, while working alongside Stockhausen in the Cologne electronic music studio, he produced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eApparitions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, a nine-minute score whose contents include, in his own words, “sounding planes and masses, which may succeed, penetrate or mingle with one another—floating networks that get torn up or entangled—wet, sticky, gelatinous, fibrous, dry, brittle, granular and compact materials, shreds, curlicues, splinters, and traces of every sort—imaginary buildings, labyrinths, inscriptions, texts, dialogues, insects—states, events, processes, blendings, transformations, catastrophes, disintegrations, disappearances.” (Paul Griffiths, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eNotes from ASO concert Spacial Explorations, June 1, 2008, Lincoln Center.\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093505101983,"sku":"13047","price":16500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Ligeti_Autograph_Manuscript_13047a.jpg?v=1722188469","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/13047-ligeti-gyorgy-autograph-musical-manuscript-of-an-unpublished-composition-for-orchestra","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}