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With many of the world’s greatest ensembles and soloists appearing in over 95 concerts, across four weeks from August to September, it’s hard to know where to begin with Bucharest’s rich musical offering.

Ligeti’s early life was deeply eventful and traumatic. Biographer Richard Steinitz describes writing Ligeti’s biography – and the alienated and abstracted imprint it left on his music.

The German composer discusses the long awaited world premiere of his new work Prague Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic, which sets fragments of Franz Kafka for two singers and orchestra.