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  "name": "Edgard Varèse",
  "description": "Edgard Varèse appears once in our Musique Concrète list, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
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    "last": 1958
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      "trackKey": "edgard-varese--poeme-electronique",
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      "title": "Poème électronique",
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      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Written for four hundred speakers in a pavilion Le Corbusier and Xenakis designed for it. Eight minutes, heard by two million people, and almost nobody has heard it properly since.",
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