By April MacIntyre Jun 13, 2006, 14:51 GMT
Announced today by music publisher Schott Music, GmbH, Hungarian-born composer Gyorgy Ligeti, 83 died today in Vienna.
Ligeti first became famous in 1961 with his orchestral piece `"Atmospheres" and had said in past interviews he "avoided traditional melodic, harmonic and rhythmic patterns to focus on sounds with constantly changing textures'.
"Atmospheres'" and ``Lux Aeterna,'' another of his works meant for unaccompanied voices, were used in Stanley Kubrick's film ``2001: A Space Odyssey.''
Ligeti was born in 1923 to Hungarian Jewish parents. His father and brother died in concentration camps in World War II, and Ligeti fled to Austria in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising, music publisher Schott said in a statement. Ligeti became an Austrian citizen in 1967.
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