Pierre-Laurent Aimard's performance suggestions are based on his close collaboration with György Ligeti.
The ‘Ligeti’s comments’ function allows you to call up his corrections, additions and explanations in the interactive score, none of which are to be found in the printed score. This critical online edition, compiled by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tobias Bleek, takes into account the following source:
Pierre-Laurent Aimard on Ligeti’s performance suggestions
Suggestions from and explanations by the composer that Pierre-Laurent Aimard wrote down during their joint working sessions and reviewed for our interactive score. More information on their collaboration and the performance notes can be found in this video as well as in the section ‘Performing Ligeti’.
“theatre with a single tone”
“a thoroughly inhuman process”
“extreme”
“play accents only where written”
Source: Notes by Pierre-Laurent Aimard
“convey the impression of a grand overture”
“the curtain rises”
“the whole cycle begins”
“grandiose; very solemn”
“See the beginning of Beethoven’s Eroica”
Source: Notes by Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Ligeti and the world of mechanical music
In the late 1980s, György Ligeti became acquainted with the French barrel organ virtuoso Pierre Charial. At the composer's request, Charial transcribed a number of piano and cembalo works, including Musica ricercata, for barrel organ.
