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Edgar Varese

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Noun1.Edgar Varese - United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965)


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A highlight of Schneller's talk was the story of the "Poeme Electronique," composed by Edgar Varese for the Philips pavilion at the 1958 World Fair in Brussels.
The work, only partially reinstalled in Basel, uses documents and images to examine three examples of late-modernist utopianism: Le Corbusier's visionary Philips Pavilion for the World Exhibition in 1958, the Poeme Electronique that Edgar Varese composed for this pavilion, and Nicolas Schoffer's project Die kybernetische Stadt (Cybernetic City), 1979, with its urban concept of aesthetic and sexual hygiene.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Dlugoszewski moved to New York City, where she studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition with Edgar Varese, a well-known avant-gardist, in the early 1950s.
 
 
 
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