„Die Natur ist hier … zu Musik geworden”
György Ligeti and (Musical) Nature
Abstract
This article traces references to nature and naturalism (understood as an attempt to ground and legitimize art in natural phenomena) in Ligeti’s writings, but also in selected aspects of his oeuvre. The references to nature recur here in various
manifestations, with romantic depictions of nature appearing alongside more recent, modernist approaches. The concept of nature is associated with the romantic setting for human emotions, with the discovery of scientific laws, with listening to soundscape, with phenomena of auditory perception and with the spectral explorations of sound. Although nature is not a central, strategic concept for Ligeti, it remains a constant, even if hidden, context for his work, a point of reference.
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