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Article: 'Space Odyssey' Composer Ligeti Dies
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- June 12, 2006
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WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-12-2006
Dateline: VIENNA, Austria
Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera "Le Grand Macabre" and his work on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," died Monday. He was 83.
Ligeti, celebrated as one of the world's leading 20th-century musical pioneers, died in Vienna after a long illness, said Christiane Krauscheid, a spokeswoman for his publisher, Germany-based Schott Music. Details were unavailable, but Austrian media said he spent the last three years in a wheelchair.
Ligeti (pronounced lig'-ih-tee) was born in 1923 to Hungarian parents in the predominantly ...
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