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Edgard Varese

Edgard Varese Edgard Varese is a composer, who been called Father of Electronic Music, he is basically a musician himself. He is born in December 22, 1883 and died in November 6, 1965. His being known as the "Father of Electronic Music" while Henry Miller described him as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound". What was his most important contribution to music? Explain. He is the inventor of the term “organized sound”. He is one of the earliest Serialist composers, electronic musician, and noisy type of music. Why was his approach to music composition so different? He is french but american, he learn his music with Vincent d'Indy, Charles-Marie Widor and Albert Roussel. He moves alot, it makes him understand a lot of culture from different places. How influential was he? Who were some of the people he influenced? He influential a lot of people in his century. For example like Chou Wen-chung who met Edgard Varese at 1949, and he become his student. And he also i...