Please enjoy these three videos about György Ligeti’s extraordinary
Etude no. 6 for piano, Autumn at Warsaw. The first describes its inspirations ranging from African drumming to Chopin
to Nancarrow to rhythmic layering to political turmoil. The second shows in detail how the rhythmic layering is
achieved. The third is a video performance with images of revolutionary activity in Poland in the 1980s.
(Thanks to
Mark Myers at SR Productions for video work,
Michele Mercure at This Girl's Music
for audio work, and Mark Carrot* for kind permission to use his photographs.)
