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Dane Rudhyar

Dane Rudhyar has been played on NTS shows including 75 Years of Folkways Records, with Preludes first played on 22 October 2023.

Dane Rudhyar (March 23, 1895, in Paris – September 13, 1985, in San Francisco), né Daniel Chennevière, was a modernist composer and humanistic astrologer. He was the pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.

Rudhyar's own compositions tend to employ dissonant harmony, emphatically not of a systematic variety such as Charles Seeger's—Rudhyar was philosophically opposed to such a rigid approach. His musical thought was influenced by Henri Bergson and theosophy, and he viewed composers as mediums, writing that "the new composer" was "no longer a 'composer,'…

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Preludes
Steffen Schleiermacher, Dane Rudhyar, Ruth Crawford, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell
MDG2005
Preludes
Steffen Schleiermacher, Dane Rudhyar, Ruth Crawford, Carl Ruggles, Henry CowellMDG2005
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