Ivan Wyschnegradsky

Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) was a Russian composer who spent most of his life in Paris and gave it to microtonal music. Born in Saint Petersburg, he studied with Nikolai Sokolov and was shaped by Scriabin's mysticism. A vision in 1916 led to La Journée de l'existence, for narrator, orchestra and choir, which he revised for decades and heard premiered only in 1978.