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Four-disc box set presentation is an anthology of Pierre Boulez's early compositions; complex, radically new and quite ferociously uncompromising. Such fearless, notoriously demanding works as the second Piano Sonata may…
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Caroline Potter
Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez's early works as well as the role surrealism and French culture of the 1930s and 40s played in shaping his radical…
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Joseph Salem
Pierre Boulez: The Formative Years mixes a biographical journey with the musical development of the central twentieth-century composer Pierre Boulez. The book is chronologized into three parts, each with a…
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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
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Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, featuring analysis of previously unpublished material…
Pierre Boulez
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Aimard Pierre Laurent
Catalogue # 4778770
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Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of a groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the College de France between 1976…
Lev Koblyakov
This edition includes an analysis of Le Marteau sans Maitre , and examines the development of serial music throughout the 20th century. Koblyakov seeks to reveal Boulez’s compositional processes and…
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Bpo Boulez
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Peter O'Hagan
Pierre Boulez’s first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the…
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Jonathan Goldman (University of Victoria, British Columbia)
Focusing on Pierre Boulez’s most recent works and writings, this study places the influential composer in a new light, avoiding the usual narrow emphasis on his early period. It includes…
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Pierre Boulez ,The Cleveland Orchestra
In a career spanning close to 70 years Pierre Boulez was always at the forefront of classical music. This 8 CD box set represents just a small part of his…
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Cleveland Orchestra
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Robin Maconie
Gertrude Stein and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead were unlikely friends who spent most of their mature lives in exile: Stein in France and Whitehead in the United States. Their friendship…
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra,London Symphony Orchestra,Pierre Boulez
“Much to admire in the sheer beauty and finesse of the orchestral playing” – The Penguin Guide
Pierre Boulez (Director of IRCAM)
In this his first collection of essays (published in France in 1966), Pierre Boulez worked out many of his most significant ideas about music. He focuses on the giants of…
Lukas Heger
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Musikwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Frage nach Parametern Klangfarbe und Raum in der Neuen Musik nach…
Susanne Gartner
Die Sonatine pour flute et piano (1946) zahlt zu den meistgespielten Werken von Pierre Boulez und nimmt in seinem OEuvre eine Schlusselstellung ein: Als Opus 1 spiegelt sie die Auseinandersetzung…
This collection of writings enhances Boulez’s unrivalled reputation as a lucid and compelling expositor of the modern composer’s world.
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Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6
Lyric Suite - three movements for string orchestra (1928)
Violin Concerto ‘To the Memory of an Angel’ (1935)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Chamber Concerto for Piano…
Exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 7 May-15 September 2002.
Ligeti:
Sonata for Cello solo
Matt Haimovitz
Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado
String Quartet No. 1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’
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First publication in English of an extraordinary and prestigious series of Lectures given by Pierre Boulez, arguably the most influential composer of the second half of the last century.
Showcases the energy and diversity of the young field of music semiology, appealing to readers who want to explore the meaning of music in our lives.
