Conlon Nancarrow
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Samuel Conlon Nancarrow was a US-born Mexican composer. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use auto-playing musical instruments, realizi
Nancarrow in 1987
From left to right: György Ligeti, Lukas Ligeti, Vera Ligeti (György Ligeti's wife), Conlon Nancarrow, and Michael Daugherty at the ISCM World Music Days in Graz, Austria, 1982
György Ligeti
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György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" an
Conlon Nancarrow
…Arch Records. Thus, at age 65, Nancarrow started coming to wide public attention. He became better known in the 1980s and was lauded by many, including György Ligeti, as one of the most significant composers of the century. In 1982, he received a MacArthur Award which paid him $300,000 over 5 years. This increased…
Ligeti in 1984
Karlheinz Stockhausen lecturing at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, July 1957
Ligeti's grave in Vienna Central Cemetery
Photo of Ligeti by Willy Pragher, 1961