Edgard Varèse

Real Name:Edgar Varèse
Profile:Edgar Varèse (1883-1965) studied with d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum (1903-5) and Widor at the Paris Conservatoire (1905-7), then moved to Berlin, where he met Richard Strauss and Busoni.
In 1913 he returned to Paris, but in 1915 he emigrated to New York; nearly all his compositions disappeared at this stage, with the exception of a single published song and an orchestral score, Bourgogne (1908), which he took with him but destroyed towards the end of his life.
His creative output therefore effectively begins with Amériques for large orchestra (1921), which, for all its echoes of Debussy and of Stravinsky's early ballets, sets out to discover new worlds of sound.
In 1921 he and Carlos Salzedo founded the International Composers' Guild, who gave the first performances of several of his works for small ensemble, these prominently featuring wind and percussion, and presenting the innovations of Amériques in pure, compact form: Hyperprism (1923), Octandre (1923) and Intégrales (1925).
Arcana (1927), which retums to the large orchestra and extended form with perfected technique, brought this most productive period to an end.
There followed a long stay in Paris (1928-33), during which he wrote Ionisation for percussion orchestra (1931), the first European work to dispense almost entirely with pitched sounds, which enter only in the coda.
He also took an interest in the electronic instruments being developed (he had been calling for electronic means since his arrival in the USA), and wrote for two theremins or ondes martenot in Ecuatorial for bass, brass, keyboards and percussion ( 1934).
The flute solo Density 21.5 (1936) was then his last completed work for nearly two decades.
During this time he taught sporadically and also made plans for Espace, which was to have involved simultaneous radio broadcasts from around the globe; an Etude pour Espace for chorus, pianos and percussion was performed in 1947.
Then, with electronic music at last a real possibility owing to the development of the tape recorder, he produced Déserts for wind, percussion and tape (1954) and a Poème électronique (1957-8), devised to be diffused in the Philips pavilion at the Brussels Exposition of 1958.
His last years were devoted to projects on themes of night and death, including the unfinished Nocturnal for voices and chamber orchestra (1961)
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Complete Works Of Edgard Varèse, Volume 1 (LP)   EMS Recordings 1950
A Sound Spectacular, Music Of Edgar Varèse (LP)   CBS 1960
Music Of Edgar Varèse ◄ (3 versions)   Columbia Masterworks ... 1960
Amériques / L'Homme Et Son Désir / Pacific 231 (LP)   Vanguard Everyman Classics 1966
Les Illuminations / Octandre / Cadenze Per 9 Strumenti / Warum Nicht? (LP, Mono)   Expo Norr 1966
Offrandes · Tempi Concertati · D'Un Opéra De Voyage (LP)   Disques Adès 1968
Offrandes / Hyperprism / Intégrales / Ionisation (10")   Fratelli Fabbri Editori 1969
Density, Intégrales, Offrandes, Hyperprism, Octandre, Ionisation (LP, Album)   Vox Records (2) 1971
Arcana / Intégrales / Ionisation ◄ (2 versions)   Decca ... 1972
Offrandes / Intégrales / Octandre / Ecuatorial (LP)   Nonesuch 1972
The Varèse Album (2xLP, Gat)   Columbia Masterworks 1972
Ameriques / Nocturnal / Ecuatorial (LP)   Dischi Ricordi S.p.A. 1976
Boulez Conducts Varèse: Amériques / Arcana / Ionisation (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Columbia Masterworks ... 1977
Density 21,5 / Hyperprism / Intégrales / Ionisation / Octandre / Poème Électronique (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   CBS Masterworks 1983
The Roots Of The Budding: The Adventures Of The Intellectual Life Of A Medical Scientist / Ionisation / Adagio From The String Quintet In C Major D. 956 (Op. Posth. 163) (LP)   Distar 1985
Arcana • Amériques • Ionisation • Offrandes • Density 21.5 • Octandre • Intégrales (CD)   Sony Classical, Sony Classical 1990
Live 3 (CD)   Attacca 1992
L'Œuvre De Edgar Varèse (Vol. 1 - 1920-1927): Amériques - Offrandes - Hyperprism - Octandre - Arcana (CD)   Erato 1993
Emergent / The Rothko Chapel / Intégrales, Octandre (CD, Album)   Col Legno 1994
Symphony No.3 / Arcana / Iron Foundry (CD)   Decca 1994
A Symphony Of Three Orchestras · Deserts · Ecuatorial · Hyperprism (CD, Comp, RM)   Sony Classical 1995
Ionisation (2xCD)   Vox Music Group 1995
L'Œuvre De Edgar Varèse (Vol. 2 - 1925-1961) (CD)   Erato 1996
The Complete Works (Album, Comp) ◄ (3 versions)   Decca ... 1998
Arcana / Intégrales / Déserts (CD, Album)   Naxos 2001
Amériques - Offrandes - Hyperprism - Octandre - Arcana - Densité 21,5 - Ionisation - Ecuatorial - Nocturnal - Intégrales - Déserts (2xCD)   Apex 2005
Densité, Intégrales, Offrandes, Hyperprisme, Octandre, Ionisation (LP)   Turnabout  
Deserts / Hyperprism / Integrales / Density 21,5 ◄ (2 versions)   Les Industries Musicales Et Electriques Pathé Marconi ...  
Music Of Varèse (LP)   Angel Records  
Appears On:
The New Flute (LP) Density 21,5 Hungaroton 1978
Taïra - Manoury - Mâche - Dufourt - Varese - Ohana - Kabelac - Xenakis (2xCD, Comp)   Philips 1993
Rückblick Moderne - Orchestermusik Im 20. Jahrhundert (8xCD, Sli)   Col Legno 1999
Avantgarde Favourites Of The 20th Century (CD, Sli)   TIM AG 2002
Forms 1-4 - In Memoriam Edgar Varèse, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman (2xCD, Album, Ltd, Dig)   hat[now]ART 2002
Discover Music Of The 20th Century (2xCD, Comp) Déserts: Second Elect... Naxos 2005
Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Ionization Warp Records 2006
Einführung In Die Neue Musik Mit Ausgewählten Tonbeispielen (2xLP, Gat)   WERGO  
Flöte (LP) Density 21,5 Wergo  
Tracks Appear On:
Sounds Of New Music (LP) Ionization Folkways Records 1957
Elektronmusikkens Materialer Og Æstetik (LP) Poème Électronique (... Edition Wilhelm Hansen 1968
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Tenth Anniversary (2xLP) Déserts Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI) 1977
Electro Acoustic Music: Classics (CD) Poème Electronique Neuma Records 1990
Rückblick Moderne - Orchestermusik Im 20. Jahrhundert (8xCD, Sli) Ionisation, Ionisation... Col Legno 1999
FMCD January 2000 (CD, Enh) Poème Électronique (... Future Music Magazine 2000
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (Comp, Album) ◄ (2 versions) Poeme Electronique Ellipsis Arts 2000
His Master's Noise - The Institute Of Sonology (2xCD) Poème Electronique BV Haast Records 2001
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (2xCD) Poème Electronique Sub Rosa 2002
Forms 1-4 - In Memoriam Edgar Varèse, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman (2xCD, Album, Ltd, Dig) Octandre - Assez Lent,... hat[now]ART 2002
Archives GRM (5xCD + Box) Désert: Interpolation 1 INA-GRM 2004
Le Mix Live (CDr, Ltd) Ionisation Not On Label 2004
Raiding The 20th Century - Words & Music Expansion (CDr, Mixed) Déserts Ninja Tune 2005
ReComposed By Jimi Tenor (CD, Album) Déserts, Ionisation Deutsche Grammophon 2006
Avant Garde (CDr, Mini, Ltd) Poème Électronique (... Ono 2008
Sound Unbound Audio Companion: Excerpts And Allegories From The Sub Rosa Archives (CD, Album, Mixed) Poème Électronique Sub Rosa 2008
Sound Unbound. Sampling Digital Music And Culture (CD, Album, Mixed) Poème Électronique The MIT Press 2008
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (3xLP, Comp, Ltd) Poème Électronique Sub Rosa 2009
Americana (LP) Ionisation Prospective 21e Siècle  
Einführung In Die Neue Musik Mit Ausgewählten Tonbeispielen (2xLP, Gat) Tonbeispiel 4. Aus "Hy... WERGO  
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