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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. Born in Montbrison, in the Loire department of France, the son of an engineer, Boulez studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg and René Leibowitz. He began his professional career in the late 1940s as music director of the Renaud-Barrault theatre company in Paris. He was a leading figure in avant-garde music, playing an important role in the development of integral serialism in the 1950s, controlled chance music in the 1960s and the electronic transformation of instrumental music in real time from the 1970s onwards. His tendency to revise earlier compositions meant that his body of work was relatively small, but it included pieces considered landmarks of twentieth-century music, such as Le Marteau sans maître, Pli selon pli and Répons. His uncompromising commitment to modernism and the trenchant, polemical tone in which he expressed his views on music led some to criticise him as a dogmatist. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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Le sacre du printemps (1947 version): Pt. 1 "Adoration of the Earth", Dance of the Earth
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Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai
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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, CD 87a
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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, Pt. 1: I. Mondestrunken
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Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57, Pt. 3: X. Lever du jour "Daybreak"

Albums

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Schumann - Masterwork

2026
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Bach, Berio, Boulez: Music for Solo Clarinet

2025
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"La Mer" - Music by Debussy

2025
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Late Romantic and Modern Classics

2026
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Boulez

2025
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Ravel - Piano Music

2025
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Modern Classics: Pierre Boulez

2026
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"Reflets dans l'eau" & Other Works by Debussy

2025
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Barenboim A-Z: Beethoven - Berg (The Solo Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon)

2026
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Ravel: Orchestral Works

2025

Singles & EPs

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Messagesquisse

Single2023
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Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time

Single2011
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Flute Concerto In D Minor, Wq. 83

Single2015
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Bel Edifice Et Les Pressentiments

Single2019
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Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

EP1999
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Druckman: Lamia (Revised Version) (Recorded 1975)

EP2017
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Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Le Sacre du Printemps

Single1992
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire - Webern: 2 Lieder, 5 Canons - Boulez: Improvisations sur Mallarmé Nos 1-2

EP2014
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Carter: Concerto for Orchestra (Recorded 1975)

EP2017

Videos

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Дебюссі - Післеполудневий відпочинок фавна - ноти

Anna Naumova3.2K views
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Rudolph Nureyev : 'L'apres-midi d'un Faune'

Patricia Forkin542K views
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Prelude a l'apres midi d'une faune - Claude Debussy, performed by Rudolf Nureyev

SuperGMajor7131K views
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M. Ravel: Concierto para piano Nº 2 en Sol mayor. II Adagio assai

Cleofás Alonso8K views
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Dukas: La Péri – Fanfare ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Marie Jacquot

hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony136K views
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Pierre Boulez plays Douze Notations: I. Fantasque – Modéré

Universal Edition75K views
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Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894)

Alex Dall'Asta988 views
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Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, L. 86, CD 87 (with Score)

symphony752693K views
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Pierrot Lunaire, I. "Mondestrunken"

Johann Wolfgang von Bearcat337K views
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Edgard Varèse - Ionisation

Precipotato135K views

Live performances

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Varèse: Ionisation / Roth - Berliner Philharmoniker

Berliner Philharmoniker19K views
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Boulez: ...explosante fixe... / Pahud - Boulez - Berliner Philharmoniker

Berliner Philharmoniker42K views

Featured on

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Presenting Debussy

PlaylistYouTube Music
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Classical Workout

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Classical Spring

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