György Ligeti’s “Wrong Path”?

Marianna S. Vysotskaya
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Moscow, Russia)
0000-0001-5357-7573
Abstract
The article considers one of the aspects of the compositional method of György Ligeti that goes to aesthetics of paradox, nonsense, absurdism. Within this stylistic trend a certain evolution can be traced, leading from the attitude towards the unpredictable behavior of the elements of the system to the stability of the structural, sound and semantic “balance”. As part of this movement towards the balance of chaos and order, Ligeti’s path from the compositions of the late 1950s to “Nonsense Madrigals” is comprehended — to the cycle that demonstrates the stabilizing function of the musical structure and the logic of the organization of the musical form.
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