Mysteries of the Macabre
composer: György Ligeti
arrangement: Elgar Howarth
Three arias from the opera "Le Grand Macabre"
Instrumentation: trumpet in C and piano
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 8' 0''
Year of composition: 1974/1977, rev. 1988
Difficulty: very difficult
32 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-08299-0
Order number: ED 8062
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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.
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Mysteries of the Macabre (2007)
György Ligeti- Mysteries of the Macabre
- + various composers
Marco Blaauw (trumpet) · Banjamin Kobler (piano)
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CD 0406
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