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Varèse Edgar
Aitken, Robert
Arnold, Malcolm
Barber, Samuel
Bartók, Béla Viktor János
Beaser, Robert
Bennet, Richard Rodney
Berio, Luciano
Bernstein, Leonard
Bloch, Ernest
Bolling, Claude
Boulanger, Marie-Juliette
Bozza, Eugène Joseph
Brown, Elizabeth
Brun, Georges
Burton, Eldin
Büsser, Henri
Camus, Pierre
Carter, Elliott
Casella, Alfredo
Clarke, Ian
Colquhoun, Michael
Copland, Aaron
Corigliano, John
Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus
Damase, Jean-Michel
Davidovsky, Mario
Debussy, Claude
Del Tredici, David
Denisov, Edison
Dick, Robert
Dohnányi, Ernő
Dutilleux, Henri
Enescu, George
Feld, Jindřich
Ferroud, Pierre-Octave
Foote, Arthur
Foss, Lukas
Françaix, Jean
Fukushima, Kazuo
Gaubert, Philippe
Gieseking, Walter
Gordeli, Otar
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
Grovlez, Gabriel
Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo
Hanson, Howard Harold
Harsányi, Tibor
Harty, Hamilton
Heiss, John
Heith, David
Higdon, Jennifer
Hindemith, Paul
Honegger, Arthur
Hoover, Katherine
Hosokawa, Toshio
Hovhaness, Alan
Hüe, Georges Adolphe
Ibert, Jacques
Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Ittzés, Gergely
Jacob, Gordon
Jemnitz, Sándor
Jirák, Karel Boleslav
Jolivet, André
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
Kennan, Kent Wheeler
Kornauth, Egon
La Montaine, John
Liebermann, Lowell
Martin, Frank
Martino, Donald
Martinů, Bohuslav
Messiaen, Olivier
Mihalovici, Marcel
Milhaud, Darius
Mouquet, Jules
Mower, Mike
Muczynski, Robert
Nielsen, Carl
Offermans, Wil
Piazzolla, Astor
Piston, Walter
Poulenc, Francis
Prokofiev, Sergey
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Ran, Shulamit
Ravel, Maurice
Reynolds, Verne
Rivier, Jean
Rota, Nino
Roussel, Albert
Rutter, John
Saariaho, Kaija
Sancan, Pierre
Schulhoff, Erwin
Schwantner, Joseph
Sciarrino, Salvatore
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Tailleferre, Germaine
Takemitsu, Tōru
Taktakishvili, Otar
Varèse, Edgar
Vasks, Pēteris
Weigl, Vally
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Yun, Isang
Density 21.5 for Flute solo
Density 21.5 for Flute solo
E. Varèse: Density 21.5 for solo flute was written in 1936 upon request by French flutist Georges Barrère who wanted a special composition for the premiere of his platinum flute. Since the density of platinum used for such flute is close to 21.5 grams per cmᶟ Varèse used that fact for the name of the composition. The piece consists of two parts: modal and atonal. Varèse made a revised version of this composition in 1946.
Varèse Edgar
Edgar Varèse (1883-1965) was a French-born American composer, known as “organized sound” composer – his music was based on a conception that “sound is a living matter”. The elements of his music were looked upon as “sound-masses”, like crystals, and the music is “organized noise”.
Born in Paris, he grew up in Turin where he took his music lessons from Giovanni Bolzoni, the director of Turin Conservatory. Influenced by his father who was an Italian engineer, Varèse studied engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin. However, his musical side took over and he returned to Paris to pursue musical studies. After composition studies with Charles-Marie Widor at the Paris Conservatoire he moved to Berlin and few years later to the United States.
In New York he met with many music enthusiasts who were willing to explore the boundaries of music. in 1921 he composed symphonic poem Amériques, followed by Hyperprism and Arcana which gradually led to his recognition. Promoting new instruments (e.g., theremin) and his science studies background became a cornerstone of his activities, attracting many contemporary figures in US and Europe. Due to his use of new and electronic resources Varèse has been considered as the “Father of Electronic Music” and had influenced many composers: Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Luigi Nono, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Frank Zappa and many others.