Musicology Annotation << Back Varese and Satie: intersection points Anna A. Maklygina Edgar Varèse and Erik Satie – two prominent composer of the twentieth century, whose work has stimulated many discoveries in the music of Modern times. Their paths intersect both in biographical terms (composers belonged to one circle of friends and talked a lot, yet Varèse lived in France), and compositional and aesthetic. Each of them has formulated its own concepts, and they both have sharply rejected any form of infl uences, not to mention the unoriginality in the music. Hence the constant search for new compositional means and as a result – the creation of an original musical vocabulary. Both composers were out of his time, in connection with which received almost identical characteristics among his contemporaries; aware of "their alone way" (words by Stravinsky), whether it concerns their composite views or way of life. Keywords: Edgar Varèse, Erik Satie, the composers of the twentieth century, American music, French music, theory of contemporary composition. Contacts: E-mail: maklygina.anna@gmail.com Pp. 18-22.