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Edgard Varèse (22 December 1883 - 06 November 1965) was a French-born composer renowned as the "Father of Electronic Music." Born in Paris, he grew up in the Burgundian village of Le Villars and later moved to Turin, where he began his early attempts at composition. Varèse married actress Suzanne Bing on 05 November 1907, with whom he had a daughter, Claude, born in 1910; they divorced in 1913. He married Louise Norton on 17 January 1922. Varèse studied at the Schola Cantorum from 1903 to 1905 and at the Paris Conservatoire from 1905 to 1907, subsequently moving to Berlin, where he met influential figures in the music scene. After returning to Paris in 1913, he emigrated to New York in 1915, during which nearly all his compositions were lost, except for a published song and the orchestral score Bourgogne (1908), which he later destroyed. His significant creative output began with Amériques for large orchestra in 1921, which aimed to explore new worlds of sound. In the same year, he co-founded the International Composers' Guild, which premiered several of his works for small ensemble, including Hyperprism (1923), Octandre (1923), and Intégrales (1925). His large orchestral work Arcana (1927) concluded this productive period. Varèse

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