Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre for Trumpet and Piano

Three arias from the opera Le Grand Macabre arranged for trumpet and pianist with spoken text.

Performance duration: 8`0"

Year of composition: 1974-1977, rev. 1988

I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1997. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the “Secret Political Police” which have been arranged (beautifully!) for chamber ensemble by Elgar Howarth. My friend Howarth had conducted the world premiere of the opera in Stockholm in 1978 and some of the further productions. The half-nonsense text is an immediate ? however more accurate ? continuation of the idea of my works Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures, but there is no chromatics in the music any more.

편곡자 Howarth, Elgar

작곡가 Ligeti, Gyeorgy (1923- )

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