Forgotten Manuscripts and Other Sino-Barbarica from Louis Ligeti’s Unpublished Works
(65th Meeting Astana, 2023)
Louis Ligeti passed away in 1987, but in 1978 he entrusted his personal scientific notes, drafts and manuscripts which he had collected throughout his life to the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which, in accordance with his will, kept the collection under embargo for 40 years from then until 2018.
In 2018, the Section of Linguistics and Literary Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences set up an expert committee whose task is to process the more than 70 boxes of documents. A significant part of the manuscripts are drafts of Ligeti’s later published articles and studies, but many of them were never published. A smaller portion of the entire material deals with Sino-Barbarian bilingual materials, from which I am about to present those that were eventually left unpublished.