Edgard Varese
Edgard Varese
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèsewas a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 December 1883
CountryUnited States of America
composer refuse present-day
The present day composer refuses to die.
ideas groups different
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
art clumsiness certain
I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.
hair natural composer
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
music writing done
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
inspirational people genius
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
eye men mediocrity
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
art organization community
Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.
writing men adequate
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
artist people belief
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.