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Article: Austrian Composer Gyorgy Ligeti; Worked on '2001: A Space Odyssey'
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- June 13, 2006
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Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who survived the Holocaust and fled
Hungary after the 1956 revolution, then won acclaim for his opera "Le
Grand Macabre" and his work on the soundtrack for "2001: A Space
Odyssey," died June 12. He was 83.
Mr. 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 had used a wheelchair for the past three years.
Mr. Ligeti (pronounced LIG-ih-tee) was born in 1923 to Hungarian
parents in the predominantly ethnic Hungarian part of Romania's
Transylvania region. His ...