{"id":47951,"date":"2024-09-19T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T12:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbbf6a6d-acf4-4fa5-8e71-3353a2e7c273"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:07:15","slug":"classical-music-inspired-by-hate-six-works-dripping-with-scorn-mockery-and-bitterness","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/classical-music-inspired-by-hate-six-works-dripping-with-scorn-mockery-and-bitterness\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical music inspired by hate: six works dripping with scorn, mockery and bitterness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Thursday, 19 September 2024 at 12:36 PM<\/p>

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Sometimes, hatred of a person or object can be almost as powerful as infatuation in serving as a muse<\/strong><\/a>. Here are six instances where hatred has found its way, pretty fruitfully we’d have to say, into music.<\/p>

Six classical works inspired by hatred<\/h2>

Ligeti: Musica Ricercata II<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>

Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti<\/a><\/strong> composed the\u00a0Musica Ricercata<\/em>, a set of 12 pieces for solo piano, from 1951 to 1953. The second of the 12 is particularly haunting, obsessively repeating just two pitches (E sharp and F sharp) until a third note, a G natural, makes an unexpected appearance. With Hungary struggling with life as part of the Eastern Bloc, under the control of Stalin’s Russia, Ligeti famously said that the third note represented ‘a knife through Stalin\u2019s heart’. <\/p>