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Edgard Varèse

1883 - 1965

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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French: [ɛdɡaʁ viktɔʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛz]; also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) 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; he coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". He conceived the elements of his music in terms of "sound-masses", likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystallization. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgard Varèse is the 124th most popular composer (up from 532nd in 2019), the 517th most popular biography from France (up from 2,215th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Edgard Varèse ranks 124 out of 1,451. Before him are Manuel de Falla, Bohuslav Martinů, Emmerich Kálmán, Giulio Caccini, Max Bruch, and Adolphe Adam. After him are Carl Nielsen, Maurice Jarre, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Anton Rubinstein, and Josef Strauss.

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Among people born in 1883, Edgard Varèse ranks 22. Before him are Grigory Zinoviev, Pierre Laval, José Ortega y Gasset, Morihei Ueshiba, Clement Attlee, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria. After him are Lon Chaney, Theo van Doesburg, Semyon Budyonny, Maurice Utrillo, Napoleon Hill, and Mohammed Nadir Shah. Among people deceased in 1965, Edgard Varèse ranks 15. Before him are Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Eli Cohen, Hermann Staudinger, Stan Laurel, and Adlai Stevenson II. After him are Paul Hermann Müller, Moshe Sharett, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Maxime Weygand, and Louise Mountbatten.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgard Varèse ranks 517 out of 6,770. Before him are Carus (230), Christine Lagarde (1956), Frédéric Bazille (1841), Camille Desmoulins (1760), René Laennec (1781), and Gregory of Tours (538). After him are Georges Bataille (1897), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Joseph Black (1728), Théodore Rousseau (1812), Joan I of Navarre (1273), and Maurice Jarre (1924).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Edgard Varèse ranks 21. Before him are Olivier Messiaen (1908), Pierre Boulez (1925), Francis Poulenc (1899), Arthur Honegger (1892), Léo Delibes (1836), and Adolphe Adam (1803). After him are Maurice Jarre (1924), Daniel Auber (1782), Édouard Lalo (1823), Pérotin (1160), Darius Milhaud (1892), and Paul Dukas (1865).

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