Edgard Varèse
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was a French and American avant-garde composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm; he coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded".
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- Born in
- Paris
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de ParisSchola Cantorum de Paris
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Trending topics shown first"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
"Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. I was the first composer to explore, so to speak, musical outer space."
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1883
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Birth1965
Died
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