Ivan Wyschnegradsky - 2 Preludes, Op. 2 (GSARCI VIDEO REVIVAL)

Microtonal composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky was a pioneer in quarter-tone music. He studied music under Nicolas Sokolov and stopped studying law around the same time he began composing. Although his first compositions were written in the normal chromatic system, within three years he adopted the quarter-tone system and was notating 1/12-tones in 1919. The following year, he and his family emigrated from St. Petersburg to France. During the early ’20s, he travelled from France to Germany a number of times, meeti