Giacinto Scelsi was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French.
He is best known for writing music based around only one pitch, altered in all manners through microtonal oscillations, harmonic allusions, and changes in timbre and dynamics, as paradigmatically exemplified in his revolutionary Quattro Pezzi su una nota sola. His musical output, which encompassed all Western classical genres except scenic music, remained largely undiscovered even within contemporary musical circ...
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