Edgard Varèse

Edgard Varese was a true revolutionary, and the more I listen, the more astonished I am at how far ahead of his time he stood. This French-born composer, who spent most of his career in the United States and died in 1965, coined the phrase organized sound, and works like Ionisation and the electronic Poeme Electronique still sound startlingly modern. He essentially heard the future of music decades before the technology caught up. Frank Zappa famously worshipped him, and you can hear his fingerprints across everything experimental that followed. For anyone who thinks classical music is staid, Varese is the radical antidote I always recommend.

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Name (English)

Edgard Varèse

Name (Japanese)

エドガー・ヴァレーズ

Reading

えどがー・ゔぁれーず

Born

December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

composer / musicologist / conductor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard%20Var%C3%A8se
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57247

Tags

• composer
• musicologist
• conductor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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