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Edgard Varese [1883-1965] American

Rank: 104
Composer (with music)
Modern, Ultramodern, Microtonal, sonorism

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.
Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm and he coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic.

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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.	Art	101
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.		102
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.		103
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.		104
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.		105
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.		106
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.		107
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.		108
Music is organized sound.		109
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.		110

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