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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French: [ɛdɡaʁ viktɔʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛz]; also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French and...

Ionisation (1929–1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists. It was among the first concert hall compositions...

composer Edgard Varèse. It was composed between 1925 and 1927, with a later revision in 1931–32. As stated in letters to his wife, Louise Varèse, in New...

French-born composer Edgard Varèse's last name with the musical term sarabande, a slow Spanish dance. As of February 2018, Varèse operates as a division...

is an unfinished composition for large orchestra by French composer Edgard Varèse. Conceived as a parody on the orchestral sounds before a concert begins...

Velvets), and modern composers, such as Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern and Edgard Varèse." R&B singles were early purchases for Zappa, starting a large collection...

to create music. Cage, Berio, Boulez, Milton Babbitt, Luigi Nono and Edgard Varèse all wrote electroacoustic music. From the early 1950s onwards, Cage...

Bennington College, she was working as a music editor when she met Edgard Varèse. The two collaborated, including on his Déserts composition, and they...

including Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, and Iannis Xenakis. From the late 1960s onward, and particularly in...

short composition for soprano and chamber orchestra by French composer Edgard Varèse. It was finished in 1921. Offrandes, entitled Dedications for the premiere...

as a student of George Whitefield Chadwick and then as a student of Edgard Varèse. Because of his close association and collaboration with prominent African-American...

composition for chamber orchestra and percussion written by French composer Edgard Varèse. Composed for choreographer and dancer Burgess Meredith, it was completed...

This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems. En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903) Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem...

blank charges in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. John Cage, Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, created entire pieces of...

Amériques is an orchestral composition by Edgard Varèse, scored for a very large, romantic orchestra with additional percussion (for eleven performers)...

Octandre is a chamber piece by Edgard Varèse, written in 1923 and published by J. Curwen & Sons in London in 1924 (new edition, New York: G. Ricordi,...

Density 21.5 is a composition for solo flute written by Edgard Varèse in 1936 and revised in 1946. The piece was composed at the request of Georges Barrère...

performed on April 30, 1919, in Berlin). In the 1920s, the French composer Edgard Varèse, when New York Dada associated via Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia's...

Hyperprism is a work for wind, brass, and percussion instruments by Edgard Varèse, composed in 1922 and revised in 1923. The work was first performed...

style of Ono as well as the musique concrète works of composers such as Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The recording began as an extended ending...