Alfred Cortot
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Alfred Denis Cortot was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for
Cortot, c. 1920s
In concert with Spéranza Calo-Séailles
Edgard Varèse
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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was a French and American avant-garde composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm; he coine
Alfred Cortot
…Vaud, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, to a French father and a Swiss mother. His nationality was French. His first cousin was the composer Edgard Varèse. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Decombes (a student of Frédéric Chopin), and with Louis Diémer, taking a premier prix in 1896. He…
Varèse (1915)
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The Philips Pavilion, designed by composer/architect Iannis Xenakis, at the Brussels 1958 World Fair, where Poème électronique was played
Nicolas Slonimsky conducting Ionisation in Havana