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Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ lwi ʒozεf bulɛz]; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music . Born in Montbrison, in the Loire department of France, the ...
Pierre Boulez (born March 26, 1925, Montbrison, France—died January 5, 2016, Baden-Baden, Germany) was the most significant French composer of his generation, as well as a noted conductor and music theorist who championed the work of 20th-century composers. Boulez, the son of a steel manufacturer, majored in mathematics at the Collège de ...
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Jan 6, 2016 · Pierre Boulez (the Z is not silent) was born on March 26, 1925, in Montbrison, a town near Lyon, the son of an industrialist, Léon Boulez, and the former Marcelle Calabre. He studied the piano ...
Mar 23, 2023 · Pierre Boulez, one of the most commanding musicians of the past century, must have been asked countless times, before his death in 2016, what he thought his legacy might be. It was a mark of his ...
Mar 26, 2015 · Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor, turns 90 years old today. The young Boulez was a rebel, even a rabble-rouser right after World War II, both in his music and in his musical ...
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Jan 6, 2016 · Pierre Boulez, one of the leading figures in modern classical music who moved between conducting, composition and teaching over his long career, has died at age 90.
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Soon Boulez was developing the concept of the 12-tone technique to embrace all of music’s armoury (dynamics, mode of attack, organisation of pitch). In the 1950s he came into contact with Stockhausen, with whom he became a leader of the European avant-garde, teaching at Darmstadt from 1955 to 1967. A key work from this period is Le marteau ...
