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ARTIST
VARESE, EDGAR
TITLE
Early Works
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
DOXY
CATALOG #
DOZ 417LP
DOZ 417LP
GENRE
CLASSICAL
RELEASE DATE
12/7/2011
"The French-born Edgar Varese (1883-1965), believed music to be both an art and a science. His pioneering use of electronic instruments like the theremin, along with his theory of 'organized sound' has earned him the impressive title of 'Father of Electronic Music'. Varese spent the early twenties as a starving composer in NYC, writing works like the percussionless
Octandre
and
Integrales
, his first piece to use the term 'spatial music'. Upon returning to Paris in 1928, he composed the celebrated
Ionisation
, the first piece ever written for an entirely percussion ensemble (thirteen percussionists and forty instruments). His 1936 piece,
Density 21.5
, written for solo flute for the premiere of George Barrere's new platinum flute, is one of the great masterpieces for unaccompanied flute. It is also one of the only compositions written by Varese during this decade. His next major work,
Deserts
, was in fact not written until 1950. It was the first piece ever written for magnetic tape and orchestra and was meant to be the soundtrack to a film which would juxtapose images of actual deserts with images from past wars (the great 'deserts' of civilization)." Featured works:
Integrales
,
Octandre
(performed by New York Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Percussion Orchestra);
Ionisation
(Juilliard Percussion Orchestra);
Density 21.5
(Rene Le Roy);
Interpolation I, II, III
(Varese).
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