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   Gyorgy Ligeti dies
   Associated Press
   June 12, 2006

   VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary
   after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera "Le Grand
   Macabre" and his work on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's
   "2001: A Space Odyssey," died today in Austria, his publisher
   in Germany announced. He was 83.

   Ligeti, celebrated as one of the world's leading 20th-century
   musical pioneers, died in Vienna after a long illness, said
   Christian Krauscheid, a spokesman for Schott Music.

   Born in 1923 to Hungarian parents in the predominantly ethnic
   Hungarian part of Romania's Transylvania region, Ligeti's father
   and brother later were murdered by the Nazis. He took Austrian
   citizenship after fleeing his ex-communist homeland and became
   known for "Macabre," which he wrote in 1978.

   He began studying music under Ferenc Farkas at the conservatory
   in Cluj, Romania, in 1941, and continued his studies in Budapest.
   But in 1943, he was arrested as a Jew and sentenced to forced
   labor for the rest of World War II.

   Copyright (c) 2006 The Associated Press

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