اتمسفرها

Atmosphères is a work for large orchestra by György Ligeti, commissioned by Southwest German Radio (SWF) and first performed on 22 October 1961 at the Donaueschingen Festival by the SWF Symphony Orchestra under Hans Rosbaud. It sets aside melody, harmony and metre in favour of dense, slowly shifting masses of sound: clusters in which each string player has an individual part, a texture Ligeti called "micropolyphony". The piece is dedicated to the memory of the Hungarian-born composer Mátyás Seiber; Ligeti said that after it and Apparitions he became famous, and Leonard Bernstein conducted its New York premiere with the New York Philharmonic in 1964. It reached a much wider audience when Stanley Kubrick used it in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), in a recording by the same orchestra under Ernest Bour.