Ligeti - Grande Symphonie Militaire (1951) [Score Video, MIDI]

Grande Symphonie Militaire, op 69a, is a fairly early piece of Ligeti's (as illustrated by being completely tonal), and I could not find a single recording of it. Thus I put the piece into Musescore and generated a MIDI of the piece using MuseSounds so you can have an idea of how it sounds.

[@mrtchaikovsky]

An interviewer once asked György Ligeti about his 1951 work, the Grande symphonie militaire, Op.69 (the work was later withdrawn).
"Oh, that was a joke", the composer replied, "the opus number refers of course to the sexual position".

[@JosephOzielComposer]

That’s what I thought! Because he didn’t give an opus to any of his other works. Good to know he had a sense of humor