Samuel Andreyev | Edgard Varèse's Déserts: Analysis (Part 1 of 2) @samuel_andreyev | Uploaded November 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Composer Samuel Andreyev’s analysis of Edgard Varèse's masterwork Déserts (1950-54). The first part (of two) examines the context, aesthetics and aims of the piece.


ERRATA: the passage from bars 48-51 features timpani and tubas, not timpani and trombones. Also, Déserts is the composer's las COMPLETED composition, but not his very last work; Nocturnal was written afterward, but remained incompete at the composer's death. My apologies for the errors.


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