Music Definitions
Electronica : history : post-war years (1940s to 1950s)
In the years following World War II, Electronic music was
embraced by progressive composers, and was hailed as a way
to exceed the limits of traditional instruments. Modern Electronic
composition is considered to have begun in force with the development
of musique concrète and tape recorders in 1948,
only to rapidly evolve with the creation of early analog synthesizers.
The first pieces of musique concrète were written
by Pierre Schaeffer, who later worked alongside such avant-garde
classical composers as Pierre Henry, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz
Stockhausen. Stockhausen has worked for many years as part
of Cologne's Studio for Electronic Music combining electronically
generated sounds with conventional orchestras. Max Mathews
began using computers to create music at Bell Laboratories
in 1957. Other well-known composers in this field include Edgar
Varèse and Steve Reich.
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