Karlheinz stockhausen musical style
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Brief Biography of the Composer Edgard Varése
Brief Biography
Born: December 22, 1883 in Paris, France
Died: November 6, 1965 in New York, America
From an early age Edgard Varèse showed an interest in music but his father preferred the idea of Varèse leading a more normal life sending him to school in Paris where he studied mathematics and science in the aims of becoming an engineer. Meeting Roussel and D'Indy however changed Varèse's attention more to music, composing several pieces in both Paris and Berlin.
In 1915 Varèse moved to America where he became a citizen, America would also offer Varèse a platform from which to present his music. As a composer Varèse sought new sounds and new ways in which to present these sounds. He was fortunate enough to be in a country that was still finding its musical identity, unlike his native Europe that was still drawn to tradition, with only a handful of composers bold enough to venture into un-chartered territory. It was at this stage in his life that Varèse's early teaching and admirers became an advantage, for it was their knowledg
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Hyperprism (Varèse)
Musical composition
Hyperprism is a work for wind, brass, and percussion instruments by Edgard Varèse, composed in 1922 and revised in 1923.
Background
The work was first performed at an International Composers' Guild concert during their second series at the Klaw Theatre on March 4, 1923. The audience laughed throughout the performance and hissed during the ovation.[1] Someone, perhaps Carlos Salzedo, got on the stage and urged the audience to take the work seriously. It was repeated to no better effect on the crowd. There was one report of a fistfight between two men who were exiting the hall.[2]
- "It remained for Edgard Varese (to whom all honor) to shatter the calm of a Sabbath night, to cause peaceful lovers of music to scream out their agony, to arouse angry emotions and tempt men to retire to the back of the theater and perform tympani concertos on each other's faces." (William James Henderson)[2]
Instrumentation
The piece is scored for flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet in E♭, 3 horns
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Edgard Varèse
French and American composer (1883–1965)
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Varèse in 1910 | |
| Born | (1883-12-22)December 22, 1883 Paris, France |
| Died | November 6, 1965(1965-11-06) (aged 81) New York City, U.S. |
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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French:[ɛdɡaʁviktɔʁaʃilʃaʁlvaʁɛz]; also spelled Edgar;[1] December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965)[2] was a French and American 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 his own musical aesthetic.[4] Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded".[5] He conceived the elements of his music in terms of "sound-masses", likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystallization.[6] Varèse thought that "to stubbornly conditioned ears, anything new in music has always been called noise", and he posed the question, "w
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