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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse ( French: [ɛdɡaʁ viktɔʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛz]; also spelled Edgar; [1] December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) [2] was a French composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm; [3] he coined the term "organized sound" in reference to ...
Edgard Varèse was a French-born American composer and innovator in 20th-century techniques of sound production. Varèse spent his boyhood in Paris, Burgundy, and Turin, Italy. After composing without formal instruction as a youth, he later studied under Vincent d’Indy, Albert Roussel, and Charles
Edgard Varèse (or “Edgar,” as he is known in the anglophone world) was born in Paris to a French mother; however, the radical identity that Varèse would go on to develop is undoubtedly, at least in part, the result of his relationship with his father, an Italian engineer. The young Edgard was optimistic about the future rewards that ...
Search for: 'Edgard Varèse' in Oxford Reference ». (1883–1965)French-born US composer and conductor, who pioneered the use of electronic and taped sound in composing.Varèse initially planned to become an engineer, but at eighteen, having composed his first opera at the age of twelve, he entered the Schola Cantorum in Paris (1904), where he ...
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer. Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound," a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of sound.
