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Edgard Varèse : composer, sound sculptor, visionary / edited by Felix Meyer and Heidy Zimmermann

Published
Woodbridge, UK : Boydell Press, 2006.
Physical Description
507 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 29 cm
Additional Creators
Meyer, Felix, 1957-, Zimmermann, Heidy, Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland), and Museum Jean Tinguely Basel

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Contents
Influences : points of orientation. "Only one thing of value" : Varèse the Burgundian / Malcolm MacDonald -- A student in Paris : Varèse from 1904 to 1907 / Dieter A. Nanz -- Blurred Traces : Varèse's years in Berlin / Helga de la Motte-Haber -- The lost early works : facts and suppositions / Heidy Zimmerman., Conductor and initiator in New York. "Little France" : Varèse and the New York Dadaist scene / Guido Magnaguagno -- "The exhiliarating atmosphere of struggle" : Varèse as a communicator of modern music in the 1920s / Felix Meyer -- The Whitney connection : Edgard Varèse and his New York patrons / Sylvia Kahan -- The art collection of Louise and Edgard Varèse / Heinz Stahlhut., Probing uncharted territory. Worlds without end : Amériques / Wolfgang Rathert -- "Daily life, slavishly imitated" : Edgard Varèse and Italian futurism / Jürg Stenzl -- Varèse's space, Varèse's time / Jonathan W. Bernard -- "You never took the simple path" : Varèse's liberation of sound and the delimitation of the arts / Klaus Kropfinger., A Pan-American in Paris. Varèse in Paris, 1928-1933 / Michel Duchesneau -- "A new primitiveness" : Varèse's Ecuatorial in its Parisian surroundings / Ernst Lichtenhahn -- Varèse and La Jeune France / Theo Hirsbrunner -- Reaching for the stars : from The One-all-alone to Espace / Anne Jostkleigrewe., Against the currents of the day. A red but no communist : Varèse in the 1930s and 40s / David Schiff -- Flute piece with a past : Density 21.5 revisited / Felix Meyer -- Varèse and his New York choruses / Sabine Feisst -- Recycling, collage, work in progress : Varèse's thought in speech and writing / Heidy Zimmermann., Approaching electronics. Varèse and the technological sublime, or, How Ionization went nuclear / Anne C. Shreffler -- "Empty spaces" : the conceptual origins of Déserts / Denise Von Glahn -- From bebop to poo-wip : Jazz influences in Varèse's Poème électronique / Olivia Mattis -- Varèse and Bouchard / Diane Bouchard., Contacts with the postwar avant-garde. Converging lives : sixteen years with Varèse / Chou Wen-chung -- "A strange phenomenon" : Varèse's influence on the European avant-garde / Gianmario Borio -- The Varèse effect : New York City in the 1950s and 60s / Austin Clarkson -- Between the text and the margin : Varèse and Pierre Boulez, 1952-1965 / Robert Piencikowski., Impact and reception. The Varèse myth / Hermann Danuser -- "Magnificent-in a mysterious way" : Varèse's impact on American Music / Kyle Gann -- "Taking sound in hand" : Wolfgang Rihm and Varèse / Ulrich Mosch -- Frank Zappa and the idol of his youth / Matthias Kassel., and Statements. Pierre Boulez -- Elliott Carter -- Peter Eötvös -- Jacques Guyonnet -- Heinz Holliger -- Mauricio Kagel -- Olga Neuwirth -- Wolfgang Rihm -- Michel Roth -- Dieter Schnebel -- Jürg Wyttenbach -- Zao Wou-Ki.
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ISBN
1843832119 (hbk.)
Note
"Catalogue of the exhibition Edard Varèse--composer, sound sculptor, visionary, 28th April-27th August 2006 in the Museum Tinguely, Basel."--T.p. verso.
Published in cooperation with the Paul Sacher Foundation.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-496) and index.
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