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György Ligeti: Fractals

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The opera “Le Grand Macabre,” composed from 1974 to 77 using his own new and distinctive techniques, is highly regarded as the greatest opera of the latter half of the 20th century, indicating a new direction for opera. Around the beginning of the 1980s, his style grew increasingly diverse and rich. While producing works strongly colored by his native Hungary, he deepened his interest in the non-European world, including African music, and incorporated fractal ideas (mathematics concerning self-similarity in which whole and parts are inserted into one another) into his creations. Alongside his distinctive exploration of polyrhythm (multidimensional rhythm) and automatism (autonomous movement), his creativity has borne abundant fruit.

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