The aim of the paper is to explore the role played by references to childhood and youth in the composer’s commentaries to his works. They also supply handy metaphors and fulfill a different function at each stage of his creative journey. References to childhood and youth, but also to synaeasthesia, dreams or imaginings, allow him to create his own, idiomatic narrative. Ligeti conducts a discourse on two planes, musical and verbal. However, the commentaries to compositions from the end of the 1950s or 60s were written concurrently. ![]() The commentaries to works preceding his escape from Hungary in 1956 were written from a more distant time perspective, during the 1980s, 1990s, and even post-2000. The composer constantly kept returning to them, not only in interviews, but also in the descriptions of his compositions. ![]() György Ligeti spent most of his creative life in Austria and Germany, but his life „adventures” left an indelible mark on him.
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