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Article: Gyorgy Ligeti's Music Was a Constant Surprise; Composer Who Refused to Be Categorized Put Unique Stamp on '2001: A Space Odyssey'
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- The Washington Post
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- June 13, 2006
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Millions of people have heard the music of Gyorgy Ligeti,
although most wouldn't recognize -- or know how to pronounce --
his name.
The music of Ligeti (lig-it-tee, without an accent), who died
yesterday in Vienna at 83, was used to convey the eerie strangeness
of fresh discovery in Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Although he did not write the so-called "2001 music" -- those 90
seconds of ultra-familiar grandeur taken from Richard Strauss's tone
poem "Also Sprach Zarathustra" -- the furious buzzing of Ligeti's
work for unaccompanied chorus, "Lux Aeterna," is the soundtrack for