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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 .
Apr 11, 2024 · Pierre Boulez, most significant French composer of his generation, as well as a noted conductor and music theorist who championed the work of 20th-century composers. His many international honors included the Praemium Imperiale (1989), the Wolf Prize (2000), and the Kyoto Prize (2009).
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Mar 23, 2023 · March 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...
Jan 6, 2016 · Jan. 6, 2016. Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor who helped blaze a radical new path for classical music in the 20th century, becoming one of its dominant figures in the decades...
Mar 26, 2015 · French Composer Pierre Boulez Dies At 90. But there was one thing fixed in Boulez's mind: the need to shake music up. Early on, he and some like-minded buddies disrupted a Stravinsky...
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Jan 18, 2016 · Boulez, who died on January 5th, at the age of ninety, never reached the front lines, but he exemplified the ethos of his generation. Cool, brutal, elegant, fiery, he established a kind of...
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Jan 6, 2016 · Mr. Boulez championed modern music at the Philharmonic and showed that he was an unmatched conductor of knotty contemporary scores. But that first season he also focused on, of all composers,...
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