here is the gallery of people interested in their music and not in themselves
you won't find here the Schaeffer Stockhausen duet and following "intelligensia".
Edgard Varese, 1883-1965, France, http://phillal.club.fr/index.html
"Art does not occur in the reason" 1937
don't look for too long in his eyes or you'll get hypnotised. believe me!
Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992, France, http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/messiaen.html
"Son of the English specialist Pierre Messiaen,
translator of Shakespeare, and the poetess Cecile Sauvage,
the young Olivier manifests very early gifts for the music, and composes before the age of ten."
Oskar Sala, 1910-2002, Germany, http://www.furious.com/perfect/ohm/oskarsala.html
."For the first time in music history, it was possible to execute sounds which had been known in theory since the Middle Ages but weren't playable on classical instruments."
György Ligeti, born 1923, Transylvania, http://www.compositiontoday.com/articles/ligeti.asp
I spent my first six years in Dicsoszentmarton, in the heart of Transylvania..."
Tod Dockstader, born 1932 USA, http://dockstader.info/interview.php
"No one is responsible for an emergence; no one can glory in it, since it always occurs in the interstice"
Delia Derbyshire, 1937-2001, www.delia-derbyshire.org/
"Surprise is a nice element in music."
the Acid Varsity
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