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  1. 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 ...

  2. Apr 11, 2024 · 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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  3. 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 ...

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  5. 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 ...

  6. 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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  7. Jan 26, 2017 · The composer and conductor Pierre Boulez died in January last year, aged 90.He was the first of many great musicians to die in 2016 but his name was rarely mentioned in the end-of-year roundups ...

  8. Jan 6, 2016 · Pierre Boulez, classical music's modern maverick: in pictures. Read more. Having cultivated the image of the angry young man of new music in the post-war years, it took a long time in public ...

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