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Nov 23, 2023 · Part biography, part survey, Pierre Boulez: The Formative Years (1925–1962) explores the creative process of a mercurial musician among an array of interrelated contexts, sketches, and correspondence.
Jul 28, 2024 · In a 2010 interview, Boulez indicated that he would "especially like to complete Éclat/Multiples," commenting: "That's one of the works which is almost finished, and, you know, I have practically twice the length of the work as I play it now, and therefore I would like to finish because the concept of the end is already there."
Jan 29, 2024 · Guest post written by Caroline Potter, author of the book Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium. The very first inkling that I might write a book on Pierre Boulez’s music is something that, unusually, I can trace back to a specific time and place: 6 October 2013, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Oct 24, 2023 · Born: 1925, Montbrison, France. Died: 2016, Baden-Baden, Germany. PIERRE BOULEZ can look back on nearly six decades of activity in making music an essential part of the contemporary world.
Dec 6, 2023 · Maurizio Pollini, pianist. Maurizio Pollini: 20th Century Pollini’s performance is simply stunning, with jaw-dropping virtuosity on display in every bar. (golden document) the Boulez Sonata ...
Nov 23, 2023 · Salem, Joseph, 'An Expanding Universe', Pierre Boulez: The Formative Years (New York, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Nov. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197652350.003.0011, accessed 17 Dec. 2023.
Nov 23, 2023 · Salem, Joseph, 'Stereophony and Spirals', Pierre Boulez: The Formative Years (New York, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Nov. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197652350.003.0010, accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
Aug 29, 2023 · This article combines historiographic reflections on the open-work concept in serial music with a new philology of Pierre Boulez's Don, the opening piece of Pli selon pli. I begin by presenting challenges in defining the open-work concept. I also deconstruct the dual use of the term ‘serialism’ to define a set of compositional ...
Feb 21, 2024 · The charm of numbers: continuing threads in Boulez's later music; Caroline Potter, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire; Book: Pierre Boulez; Online publication: 21 February 2024; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805431237.006
Feb 21, 2024 · Boulez's fixation with numbers in music – not only the number twelve associated with serialism – is not mathematical: rather, it is magical. Boulez is a divisive figure whose reputation as the ‘angry young man’ of European modern music followed him for the rest of his long life.
