Michael Daugherty
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Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. He is influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Daugherty's notable works include his Superman comic book-in
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Daugherty brothers: (L-to-R) Tom, Pat, Michael, Tim, and Matt, 1973
Daughterty at IRCAM, 1979
From left to right: György Ligeti, Lukas Ligeti, Vera Ligeti, 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
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…on synthesizers) that, over several years, performed in concert halls and clubs across Europe. In the fall of 1982, Daugherty was invited by composer György Ligeti to study composition with him at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In addition to attending Ligeti's composition seminar (which took place…
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