GYORGY LIGETI 1923-2006

influencia música rumana folk:

Balada Baladă şi joc 1950

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-qsEoaqRds

There are, however, constants in Ligeti's musical imagination.

One of the most important is the idea of the absurd. Ligeti's

world of imagination was simultaneously an asylum, a place of

refuge, and a place to process the horror of the 20th century's

great geo-political nightmares through which he lived. As a

child, he invented a self-sufficient world of his creation that he

called Kylwiria; as an adult, he was a lover of Lewis Carroll (he

wanted to write an opera based on Alice in Wonderland) and

the surreal linguistic games and imagery of Hungarian

poet Sándor Weöres. One of his very last pieces was Síppal,

dobbal, nádihegedüvel, "With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles", a setting

of Weöres's poems for percussion quartet and mezzo-soprano.

They are, typically for Ligeti, on a tiny scale, and they make

sounds like nothing else: each of the seven songs is

simultaneously redolent of folk music and of modernist

complexity, of childish immediacy and decidedly adult

sophistication. Yet this music is absolutely, definitively new, and

each number conjures its own little-but-large world of absurdist

expression and resonance. They are also, I think, strangely

melancholic. The Sippal songs have that quality that all the best

absurdist poetry does of making you confront big ideas through

lightness of touch, humour, and sleight of hand.