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Part One
The Parisian Years: 1895-1916
Dane rudhyar biography graphic organizer
His birth name was given up in 1917, a few months after reaching New York. He had a sister, lost his father in 1911 and his mother in 1954.
Rudhyar began playing piano at age seven, and started composing for the piano in 1912.
The surgical removal of a kidney at age thirteen exempted him in 1914 from military service, actually saving his life as the regiment he would have joined was completely wiped out in the 1914 French retreat from the Marne. He received a bachelors degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne at age sixteen.
At age sixteen, Rudhyar first realized two things which conditioned his entire life and work: (1)Time is cyclic, and cyclicity governs civilizations as well as all aspects of existence; (2)Western civilization is coming to what could be symbolic