Edgard Varèse

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-12-22 (82 years old)

Deathday

1965-11-06

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Edgard Varèse

Biography

Edgard Varèse or Edgar Varèse (both spellings were used by the composer himself at different times in his life) was a French naturalized American composer, born December 22, 1883 in Paris and died November 6, 1965 in New York. Initially trained at the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatory, Varèse found with more independent artists, such as Debussy and Busoni, the necessary encouragement for his personal expression. Indeed, well before 1914, Varèse considered abandoning classical composition methods, the tempered system and traditional musical instruments to use “the sound material itself”. This ideal led him to destroy his first score...

Acting

1920

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Policeman (uncredited)

2002

Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Zappa

as Self (archive footage)

1920

A Dark Lantern

as Count Wilhelm

Production

1958

1958

1964

Garabatos

as Music

1994

Déserts

as Music

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