---
name: "György Ligeti"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gyorgy-ligeti"
fi1m_id: "gyorgy-ligeti"
tmdb_id: 1655425
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "28 May 1923"
died: "12 June 2006"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:28:55.631337+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# György Ligeti

## Identity

György Ligeti

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gyorgy-ligeti
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gyorgy-ligeti
- **TMDB ID:** 1655425
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1655425

Composer. Born 28 May 1923 in Diciosânmartin, Siebenbürgen, Ungarn. Died 12 June 2006.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 28 May 1923, Diciosânmartin, Siebenbürgen, Ungarn
- **Died:** 12 June 2006
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1655425

## Biography

György Ligeti was a Hungarian composer known for his avant-garde works featuring micropolyphony and shifting masses of sound. Born on 28 May 1923 in Diciosânmartin (now Tîrnăveni), Transylvania, he studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and fled Hungary after the 1956 uprising, later settling in Vienna and becoming an Austrian citizen.

His music gained wider recognition through its use in Stanley Kubrick films. Ligeti’s compositions, including excerpts from *Requiem*, *Atmosphères* and *Lux Aeterna*, featured in *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968); *Lontano* appeared in *The Shining* (1980); and a piano piece was used in *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999). He also wrote the opera *Le Grand Macabre* (1978, revised 1997) and numerous piano études. Ligeti died in Vienna on 12 June 2006.

*Sources: theguardian.com, encyclopedia.com, www-britannica-com.translate.goog.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Shining* (1980), Fi1m 88, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Barbara Hannigan - Ligeti and Stravinsky* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Olivier Messiaen: The Turangalîla-Symphonie Orchestre de Paris* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (2021), Music
- *Ouverture - Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Europakonzert 2020* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Le Grand Macabre* (2019), Writer
- *London Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky* (2017), Music
- *The Miracle of Tekir* (2016), Additional Music
- *Sunset Dance* (2012), Music
- *Le Grand Macabre* (2011), Writer
- *After the Day Before* (2004), Music
- *The House with Arched Windows* (2000), Music
- *Promenée* (1988), Music
- *The Shining* (1980), Music — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)
- *Winterspelt 1944* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *The Paradise Garden* (1970), Music
- *We Are Your Grandfather*, Music

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