Edgard Varese (1883-1965)
Un grand sommeil noir, soprano and piano (1906) Varese LinksOffrandes, soprano and chamber orchestra (1921)
Ameriques, orchestra (1918-22; fp April 9, 1926)
Hyperprism, 9 winds and percussion (1922-23)
Octandre, flute, winds and brass (1923)
Integrales, 11 winds and 4 percussionists (1925)
Arcana, orchestra (1925-27)
Ionisation, 13 percussionists (1931)
Ecuatorial, bass voice (or unison male chorus), brass,, piano, organ, perc. and 2 fingerboard theremins/ondes martenots (1932-34)
Density 21.5, solo flute (1936)
Music for Thomas Bouchard's film "Fernand Léger in America - His New Realism" (1946)
Tuning Up, orchestra (1947) - incomplete [for the Boris Moros movie "Carnegie Hall"; unused; reconstructed by Chou Wen-chung)
Etude pour Espace, chorus, 2 pianos and percussion (1947)
Dance for Burgess, chamber ensemble (1949) [written for Burgess Meredith for the failed production of "Happy as Larry"]
Deserts, 14 winds, piano, percussion and 2-track tape (1951-54)
La procession de Vergès, tape (1955) [for Thomas Burchard's film "Around and About Joan Mirò"]
Poem electronique, 4-track tape (1957-58)
Nocturnal, soprano, bass chorus and small orchestra (1961) - incomplete [completed by Chou Wen-chung]
Unfinished projects
The One-All-Alone, stage work (1927)
L'astronome, stage work (1928-9)
Metal, soprano and orchesta (1932)
The Great Noon (1932)
Espace (The One All Alone; Le Miracle; L'astonome), chorus and orchestra (1929-c1947)
Trinum, orchestra and electronic sounds (1950-54)
Dans la nuit, chorus, brass, organ, 2 ondes martenot and percussion (1955-61)
Nocturnal II (Nuit), soprano and small ensemble (1961-65)
Lost works
Martin Pas, opera, boys' voices and mandolin (c1895)
Chansons avec orchestra (c1905)
Colloque au bord d'une fontaine (c1905)
Dans le parc (c1905)
Le fils des étoiles, opera (c1905)
Poèmes des brumes (c1905)
3 Pieces, orchestra (Souvenir?) (c1905)
Chanson des jeunes hommes, orchestra (c1905)
Prélude à la fin d'un jour, after L. Deubel, orchestra (c1905)
2 rhythmic prose pieces (Deubel) (c1905)
Rhapsodie romane, orchestra (1905-6; pf version, fp. Paris, 1906)
Apothéose de l'océan, sym. poem, large orchestra (1906)
La délire de Clytemnestre, tradegie symphonique (1907)
Bourgogne, large orchestra (1907-08) - score destroyed by Varese, c1962
Gargantua, sym. poem, large orchestra (1909) - incomplete
Mehr Licht, orchestra (1911; preworked as Les cycles du nord, orchestra, 1912)
Les cycles du nord, orchestra (1912) [see Mehr Licht]
Oedipus und die Sphinx, opera (1908-14)
Danse du robinet froid (1917-19)
Varese Links
The Liberation of Sound (by Edgard Varese)
Edgard Varese - Father of Electronic Music
Isabelle Chapuis Starr on Varese
Chou Wen-chung and the Varese Story (by Stanley Fefferman, showtimemagazine.ca) also at Live Music Report
Edgard Varese: Complete Works (by Bob Halliday, Mappi.mundi Magazine)
Edgard Varese @ Musem Tinguely (also press release)
On Ameriques (1922) (by Chou Wen-chung)
Varese (by Grant Chu Covell, La Folia)
Composers Who Broke Their Reins (Bernard Holland, The New York Times)
No Apolgy (Time Magazine)
Struggles of an Electronic Pioneer (by Bayan Northcott, The Independent @ bnet)
Edgard Varese: Composer Portrait (by John Hammel, Bella Cantare)
Varese: Ameriques (@ LA Philharmonic)
A Bomb to Blow Up Music World (by David Stevens, International Herarld Tribune)
Boulez Conducts Varese (review by Daniel Felsenfeld, Andante.com)
Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: Edgard Varese
Masterpieces of 20th Century Multi-channel Tape: Varese
Engineer's Son (Time Magazine)
Poem electronique by Varese: Authenticity, Reproduction and Mediatization (by Tim Stephenson, Intellect)
Edgard Varese: Offrandes (1921) (time4time)
Edgard Varese @ A42
On Hyperprism (1923) (@ Renewable Music)
Varese's Hyperprism (by Christopher Meister)
Frank Zappa on Edgard Varese (by John Diliberto and Kimberly Haas, Downbeat Magazine)
Sound Space and Edgard Varese's Poeme electronique (by Densil Cabrera/Masters Thesis)
Edgard Varese and the New Music of America (by Dane Rudhyar, Rudhyar Archival Project)
Varese, Image, Science (by Alain Montesse) [translated by google from the Frech original]
Pierre Boulez on Edgard Varese: "Octandre", performance and analysis (Creative Arts Television)
On Octandre (1923) (by Chou Wen-chung)
The Composer's Eye (State University of New York at Buffalo Exhibition)
Composer Portraits: Edgard Varese (Darcy James Argue's Secret Society)
Back to the Future, Unmade: Glittering, Playful Varese (Anne Midgette, The New York Times)
Edgard Varese: Collection of Scores and Other Materials (Stanford University Libraries)
Varese's Ionisation and Ecuatorial (Sarah Canice Funke, classicalmusic.suite101.com)
With Varese at the Equator (Brian Kane)
The Rebirth of the Theremin Cello (@ peterpringle.com)
Books with Varese references
Beautiful Noise - Directions in Electronic Music (@ ele-mental.org)
Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism (by Robert Morse Crunden @ books.google.com)
Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall (by Joseph Horowitz @ books.google.com)
Metropolis, 1890-1940 (by Anthony Sutcliffe @ books.google.com)
The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa (by Evan Eisenberg @ books.google.com)
Time Space Texture: An Approach to Audio-Visual Composition (by Andrew D. Lyons, thesis)
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt (by Milton Babbitt @ books.google.com)
Books on Varese (abstracts only)
Form and Expression in the Vocal Works of Edgard Varese (by F. Mitchell) - abstract
Varese: Astronomer in Sound (by Malcolm MacDonald, W.H. Smith) - descripton only
Vestiges of an Early Style? On the First Version of Varese's Ameriques (by Dieter Nanz) - abstract
Interaction between the generative cell and symmetrical operations in Varese's Octandre (by Eli-Eri Moura) -abstract
Varese @ Wikipedia
Varese @ 20th Century Arts and Humanities (Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University)
Varese @ allmusic
Varese @ aworks
Varese @ Biographybase
Varese @ Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Varese @ Brain-Juice
Varese @ Center for New Music & Audio Technologies, University of California at Berkeley
Varese @ Centrebombe
Varese @ Classical Music Pages
Varese @ dbpedia
Varese @ edgard-varese.com (french website)
Varese @ Electro-acoustic Music
Varese @ enotes [Varese's name misspelled as "Vareoe"]
Varese @ IRCAM (translated by google from the French original)
Varese @ Karadar Classical Music
Varese @ Kunstbus (translated by google from the Dutch original)
Varese @ Musical Time.com
Varese @ My Space Music 1 & 2
Varese @ The New York Times
Varese @ Sapientiam Autem Non Vincit Malitia (translated by google from the Portuguese original)
Varese @ Theremin.info
Varese @ Theremin Vox Bio and Links
Varese @ Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary Composers Biographies
Varese @ Zappa Wiki Jawaka
Streaming Audio
Varese @ Classical Masterpieces
Varese @ Connexions: Listening Gallery
Varese @ last.fm
Varese @ Rhapsody
Varese @ UBUWEB
Varese @ USC Music of the 20th Century
Varese @ YouTube
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