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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez 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.
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Born 26 March 1925 · Died 5 January 2016 · Q156193
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2026· 2 entries
“the envelope is simpler. The contents are not ... I think in my recent work it is true that the first approach is more direct, and the gesture is more obvious, let”
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2025· 6 entries
The New York Times: Pierre Boulez
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The Guardian: Pierre Boulez was exacting – but never in a bad tempo | Letters
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The Guardian: Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez review – still refreshingly alien
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Yahoo: The composer Pierre Boulez was born 100 years ago. Here’s why he was a genius
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The Guardian: LSO/Rattle review – old, new, borrowed and Boulez for conductor’s birthday concerts
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The Guardian: ‘He jolted us out of our comfort zone’: Antonio Pappano, Martyn Brabbins and more on Pierre Boulez
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2017· 3 entries
The Guardian: Hommage à Boulez CD review – fabulous and compelling bow to a modern master
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The Guardian: Boulez in the jungle: avant-garde music's indigenous soul
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The Bibliothèque nationale de France announced that his estate had made a substantial donation of private papers and possessions not covered by the Sacher contract, including 220 metres of books, 50 metres of archives an
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2016· 5 entries
The Guardian: Pierre Boulez: Young Composer and Conductor CD review – hallmark clarity and precision
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The Guardian: Pierre Boulez's music reviewed by the Observer, September 1965
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The Guardian: Pierre Boulez: 'He was one of the naughtiest of great artists'
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Yahoo: French composer Pierre Boulez dies aged 90
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Died 2016-01-05.
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2015· 4 entries
Awarded Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (2015).
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Universal Music brought these recordings together in a 10-CD set
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Erato issued Pierre Boulez—The Complete Erato Recordings on 14 CDs
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Which included a multi-media exhibition at the Musée de la Musique in Paris, focusing on the inspiration he had drawn from literature and the visual arts
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2014· 1 entry
Sony Classical issued Pierre Boulez—The Complete Columbia Album Collection on 67 CDs
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2013· 2 entries
Oversaw the release on Deutsche Grammophon of Pierre Boulez: Complete Works, a 13-CD survey of all his authorised compositions
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Described it as his most important work—"because it is the freest"
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2012).
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Awarded Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Boulez described it as a piece in which "the responsibility of the composer is practically absent
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Edison Music Awards (2010).
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That, at the age of 85, he was working on an opera based on Beckett's Waiting for Godot, few believed such an ambitious undertaking could be realised so late in the day
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
The Louvre mounted the exhibition Pierre Boulez, Œuvre: fragment
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2007· 1 entry
Was re-united with Chéreau for a production of Janáček's From the House of the Dead (Theater an der Wien, Amsterdam and Aix)
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2005· 1 entry
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra released a 2-CD set of broadcasts by Boulez, focusing on works which he had not recorded commercially, including Janáček's Glagolitic Mass and Messiaen's L'Ascension
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2004· 2 entries
And 2005 he returned to Bayreuth to conduct a controversial new production of Parsifal directed by Christoph Schlingensief
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Co-founded the Lucerne Festival Academy, an orchestral institute for young musicians, dedicated to music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Glenn Gould Prize (2002).
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded Grawemeyer Awards (2001).
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Awarded Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Conductor) (2001).
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Awarded Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (2001).
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Conducted a major Bartók cycle with the Orchestre de Paris
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Arts (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition) (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1997).
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Polar Music Prize (1996).
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Awarded Berliner Kunstpreis (1996).
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1995· 21 entries
Released album “Dukas: La Péri / De Falla: El sombrero de tres picos / Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Violoncello”.
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Released album “Boulez Conducts Webern, II”.
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Released album “Daphnis et Chloé / La Valse”.
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Released album “Boulez Conducts Boulez: ...Explosante-fixe... / Notations I–XII / Structures II”.
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Released album “Secret Theatre / Tragoedia / Five Distances / Three Settings of Celan”.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Royal College of Music (1995).
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Released album “Symphony no. 6”.
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Released album “Boulez at 70”.
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Released album “Divertimento / Dance Suite / Hungarian Sketches / Deux Images”.
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Released album “Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Chronochromie / La Ville d’en Haut”.
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Released album “La Mer / Nocturnes / Jeux / Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre”.
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Released album “Boulez Conducts Webern”.
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Released album “Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras / Varèse: Deserts; Ecuatorial; Hyperprism”.
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Released album “Chamber Concerto / Three Orchestral Pieces, op. 6 / Violin Concerto”.
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Released album “Piano Recital”.
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Was named principal guest conductor in Chicago, a post he held until 2005, when he became conductor emeritus
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Was marked by a six-month retrospective tour with the London Symphony Orchestra, taking in Paris, Vienna, New York and Tokyo
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Released album “Piano Sonatas nos. 1 - 3”.
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Released album “Mahler: Rückert-Lieder / Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder”.
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Released album “Pulcinella / The Song of the Nightingale / The Nightingale / L'Histoire du Soldat”.
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Released album “Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Couleurs de la cité céleste / Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments”.
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “Boulez Conducts Ligeti: Concertos for Cello / Violin / Piano”.
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Released album “Boléro / Ma mère l’Oye / Rapsodie espagnole / Alborada del Gracioso”.
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Released album “20th Century Music for Unaccompanied Clarinet”.
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Released album “Bartók: The wooden prince / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Dance Suite / Scriabin: Le Poeme De L’Extase”.
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Released album “Concerto pour Flûte / Concerto pour Violoncelle”.
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Released album “Bluebeard's Castle”.
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1993· 12 entries
Released album “Concerto for Orchestra / Four Orchestral Pieces”.
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Released album “L’Oiseau de feu / Feu d’artifice / Quatre Etudes pour orchestre”.
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Released album “Serenade / Five Pieces for Orchestra / Ode to Napoleon”.
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Released album “Die Glückliche Hand / Variations, op. 31 / Verklärte Nacht”.
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Released album “Gurre-Lieder / 4 Songs, op. 22”.
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Released album “Suite, Op. 29 / Verklärte Nacht / 3 Pieces”.
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Released album “Pierrot Lunaire / Lied der Waldtaube / Erwartung”.
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Released album “Wuorinen: Second Sonata (1976) / Boulez: Troisième Sonate pour Piano (1958; 2 versions)”.
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Released album “Moses und Aron / Chamber Symphony no. 2”.
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Released album “Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1 und Nr. 3”.
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Released album “Couleurs de la Cité céleste / Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / L'Ascension”.
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Released album “The Firebird / 4 Etudes / Fireworks”.
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1992· 11 entries
Released album “The Wooden Prince / Cantata Profana”.
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Released album “Pétrouchka / Le Sacre du printemps”.
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Released album “Images / Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune / Printemps”.
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Released album “Siegfried”.
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Released album “Das Rheingold”.
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Awarded Theodor W. Adorno Award (1992).
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Released album “Phlegra / Jalons / Keren / Nomos Alpha / Thalleïn”.
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Released album “Götterdämmerung”.
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Released album “Structures pour deux pianos”.
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Boulez gave up the directorship of IRCAM and was succeeded by Laurent Bayle
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Released album “Pelleas and Melisande, op. 5 / Variations, op. 31”.
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1991· 6 entries
Released album “Songs”.
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Released album “Violin Concerto no. 1 / Viola Concerto / 2 Rhapsodies”.
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Released album “The Miraculous Mandarin / Four Orchestral Pieces / Three Village Scenes”.
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Released album “Das klagende Lied”.
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Released album “The Firebird Suite / Pulcinella Suite / Scherzo Fantastique / Suites Nos. 1 & 2”.
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Released album “Sonate pour piano n°1 - Sonatine (BBC Singers, Ensemble InterContemporain feat. director: Pierre Boulez)”.
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1990· 8 entries
Released album “Arcana / Amériques / Ionisation / Offrandes / Density 21,5 / Octandre / Intégrales”.
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Released album “Le Sacre du Printemps / Four Etudes for Orchestra”.
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Released album “La nuova musica, Volume 10”.
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Released album “La nuova musica, Volume 8: Stravinsky: Elegy for J.F.K. / Abraham and Isaac / Webern: Das Augenlicht / Kantaten I, II / Dallapiccola: Cinque canti / Boulez: Le Soleil des eaux”.
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Released album “Corale / Chemins II & IV / Ritorno degli snovidenia / Points on the Curve to Find”.
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Released album “Le Visage nuptial / Le Soleil des eaux / Figures, Doubles, Prismes”.
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Released album “The Orchestral Works”.
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Released album “Lulu-Suite / Der Wein / Lyric Suite”.
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1989).
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1988· 9 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1988).
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Released album “Stravinsky: Les Noces / Pribaoutki / Berceuses du Chat / Chansons Russes / Quatre Chansons Paysannes”.
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Released album “The Wooden Prince / Dance Suite”.
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Released album “El Amor Brujo / El Sombrero De Tres Picos”.
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Released album “Stravinsky / Boulez / Denisov / Stockhausen / Berio”.
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Released album “Hommage à Olivier Messiaen”.
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Pierre Bergé was appointed president of the Bastille opera
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As a five-minute piece, dedicated to Elliott Carter on his 80th birthday; by 2006 it was a 45-minute work for eleven instruments and Boulez's last major composition
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Made a series of six programmes for French television, Boulez XXe siècle, each of which focused on a specific aspect of contemporary music (rhythm, timbre, form etc
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1987· 1 entry
Won Goethe Medal (1987).
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1986· 5 entries
Released album “Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" / Three Orchestral Pieces, op. 6”.
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Boulez entered into an agreement to place his musical and literary manuscripts with the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland
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Released album “Concerto pour violon, op. 36 / Concerto pour piano, op. 42”.
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Released album “Pli Selon Pli”.
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Released album “Sinfonia / Eindrücke”.
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1985· 4 entries
Awarded Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1985).
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Released album “La Mer / L'après-midi d'un faune / Jeux”.
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Released album “Wagner - Meistersinger Prelude/Tannhäuser Overture, Faust Overture, Tristan Und Isolde Prelude & Love-Death”.
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Released album “Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 / Suite, op. 29”.
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1984· 3 entries
Released album “Shéhérazade / Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé / Chansons madécasses / Don Quichotte à Dulcinée / Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques”.
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Recorded several pieces on Frank Zappa's album The Perfect Stranger with the Ensemble intercontemporain
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Released album “Ecuatorial / Déserts / Intégrales / Hyperprism / Octandre / Offrandes / Density 21.5”.
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1983· 4 entries
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1983).
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Released album “Rituel / Eclat/Multiples”.
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Released album “The Firebird (Complete Original 1910 Version) / The Song Of The Nightingale”.
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Released album “Chamber Concerto - Ramifications - Aventures - Nouvelles aventures”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Die Walküre”.
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Released album “Trois sonates pour piano”.
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1980· 4 entries
Released album “Wozzeck”.
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Released album “Orchestral Music: op. 1 / op. 6 / op. 10 / op. 21 / op. 30 / Ricercata”.
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"enthusiasm for the production vastly outweighed disapproval"
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Released album “Symphony of Three Orchestras / A Mirror on Which to Dwell”.
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1979· 4 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1979).
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Awarded Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1979).
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Boulez conducted the world premiere of the three-act version of Berg's Lulu at the Paris Opera in Friedrich Cerha's completion of the work, left unfinished at Berg's death
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Released album “Lulu”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Kammermusik”.
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1973· 3 entries
Released album “Boulez Conducts Berlioz”.
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Released album ““Wozzeck” Act III / Seven Early Songs”.
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Released album “Concerto for Orchestra”.
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1972· 3 entries
Boulez engaged a young German, Hans Messner, as his personal assistant to look after the practicalities of his life
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As a tribute to Stravinsky and which again used the electronic resources of IRCAM, and sur Incises (1998), for which he was awarded the 2001 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
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Wolfgang Wagner, who had succeeded his brother Wieland as director of the Bayreuth Festival, invited Boulez to conduct the 1976 centenary production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
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1971· 5 entries
Released album “Messiaen: 7 Haïkaï / Eloy: Équivalences / Pousseur: Madrigal III”.
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Released album “Domaines”.
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Released album “Boulez dirigiert Mahler: Das Klagende Lied (Erste Gesamtaufnahme) / Adagio aus der Sinfonie Nr. 10”.
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Released album “Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire / Webern: Zwei Lieder, op. 8 / Fünf Canon, op. 16 / Boulez: Improvisation sur Mallarmé”.
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Released album “Pierre Boulez Conducts Berlioz: Lélio (The Return to Life)”.
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1970· 4 entries
Boulez was asked by President Pompidou to return to France and set up an institute specialising in musical research and creation at the arts complex—now known as the Centre Georges Pompidou—which was planned for the Beau
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Released album “Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 & Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112 - Mahler: Symphony No. 10”.
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Released album “Boulez Conducts Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 / Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage”.
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Released album “Pelléas et Mélisande”.
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1969· 4 entries
Released album “Le Sacre du Printemps”.
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Released album “Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 (Images Pour Orchestre / Danses, Sacree Et Profane)”.
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Made the first recording of Pli selon pli (with Halina Łukomska as soprano soloist) and recordings of Rituel and Éclat/Multiples
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Was praised for its combination of "delicacy and sumptuousness"
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “The New Music, Volume 2”.
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1967· 3 entries
But the lack of adequate rehearsal made it an experience he later said he would rather forget
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Released album “Schoenberg: Transfigured Night / Eloy: Equivalences / Schoenberg, Eloy / Pousseur: Madrigal III”.
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Boulez, theatre director Jean Vilar and choreographer Maurice Béjart were asked to devise a scheme for the reform of the Paris Opéra, with a view to Boulez becoming its music director
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1966· 1 entry
Proposed a reorganisation of French musical life to the minister of culture, André Malraux, but Malraux instead appointed the conservative Marcel Landowski as head of music at the Ministry of Culture
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1965· 2 entries
As a piece for soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra
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The Edinburgh International Festival staged the first large-scale retrospective of Boulez as composer and conductor
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Le Marteau sans maître”.
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1963· 1 entry
Boulez conducted his first opera, Berg's Wozzeck at the Opéra National de Paris, directed by Barrault
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “Pierrot lunaire”.
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1959· 2 entries
Boulez left Paris for Baden-Baden, where he had an arrangement with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra to work as composer-in-residence and to conduct some smaller concerts
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When he replaced the ailing Hans Rosbaud at short notice in demanding programmes of twentieth-century music at the Aix-en-Provence and Donaueschingen Festivals
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1956· 1 entry
When he conducted the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra while on tour with Barrault
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1954· 1 entry
With the financial backing of Barrault and Renaud, Boulez started a series of concerts at the Petit Marigny theatre, which became known as the Domaine musical
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1952· 3 entries
Stockhausen arrived in Paris to study with Messiaen
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That "any musician who has not experienced—I do not say understood, but truly experienced—the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS
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Boulez sent scripts to French Radio in Désormière's name so that the older man could collect the fee
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1947· 1 entry
Toured to Belgium and Switzerland ("absolutely pays de cocagne, my first discovery of the big world"); in 1948 they took Hamlet to the second Edinburgh International Festival; in 1951 they gave a season of plays in
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1946· 2 entries
Described as "intense and tormented" and which Peyser suggested was the trigger for the "wild, courageous works" of that period
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When Leibowitz tried to criticise one of his early works
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1945· 1 entry
Is now languorous; what was crude is now done with a lifetime's experience and expertise; what was simple is fantastically embellished, even submerged
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1929· 1 entry
From the apartment above a pharmacy, where Boulez was born, to a comfortable detached house, where he spent most of his childhood
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-03-26.
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1898· 1 entry
And using imagery from the Industrial Age; he achieved an exceptional degree of naturalism in the singers' performances
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