COMPOSER

Edgard Varèse

1883 - 1965

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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French: [ɛdɡaʁ viktɔʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛz]; also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French and American composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm; he coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgard Varèse has received more than 951,795 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Edgard Varèse is the 532nd most popular composer (down from 522nd in 2019), the 2,214th most popular biography from France (down from 2,126th in 2019) and the 79th most popular French Composer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Edgard Varèse ranks 532 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Christoph Bach, Hervé, Boris Lyatoshinsky, Michael Kamen, Ivan Zajc, and François-Joseph Fétis. After him are Luigi Rossi, Paul Bowles, Louis Couperin, George Antheil, Vicente Martín y Soler, and Manuel Ponce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Edgard Varèse ranks 88. Before him are José Mendes Cabeçadas, Walter Huston, Johnston McCulley, Louis Massignon, Leonid Kulik, and Bertram Ramsay. After him are Joseph Stilwell, Hermann Abendroth, Hasui Kawase, Jean Metzinger, Henk Sneevliet, and Dmitry Manuilsky. Among people deceased in 1965, Edgard Varèse ranks 64. Before him are José Mendes Cabeçadas, Humberto Delgado, Sālote Tupou III, Ladislas Starevich, Shirley Jackson, and Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah. After him are Leopold Figl, Kurt Goldstein, William Heard Kilpatrick, Ladislao Vajda, Corrado Gini, and Harry Porter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgard Varèse ranks 2,214 out of 6,770. Before him are Élisabeth Depardieu (1941), César Baldaccini (1921), Nominoe (800), François-Marie Raoult (1830), Thomas Merton (1915), and Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins (1642). After him are Catherine of Burgundy (1378), Oronce Finé (1494), Guy Ligier (1930), Maurice Couve de Murville (1907), Pierre Klossowski (1905), and Dominique Pinon (1955).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Edgard Varèse ranks 79. Before him are Maurice Duruflé (1902), Florent Schmitt (1870), Alexandre Desplat (1961), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), and Hervé (1825). After him are Louis Couperin (1626), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Pierre Henry (1927), Henri Duparc (1848), Gabriel Pierné (1863), and Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711).

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