Pierre Boulez

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French person composer human music theorist orchestral conductor

Pierre Boulez was a pioneering 20th-century French composer, conductor, and influential advocate of avant-garde and serial music.

Aliases (2)

Boulez ×1
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez ×1

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → composer → human → music theorist → orchestral conductor →
awardReceived	Ernst von Siemens Music Prize → Grammy Award → Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition → Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy →
collaboratedWith	Bruno Maderna → Karlheinz Stockhausen → Luciano Berio →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1925-03-26 →
dateOfDeath	2016-01-05 →
directorOf	IRCAM →
educatedAt	Conservatoire de Paris →
familyName	Boulez →
founded	Domaine musical → Ensemble InterContemporain → IRCAM →
fullName	Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez →
genre	contemporary classical music →
givenName	Pierre →
influenced	George Benjamin → Harrison Birtwistle → Pierre-Laurent Aimard →
instrument	piano →
knownFor	advocacy of contemporary music → authoring influential essays on music → innovative approaches to musical form and timbre → promotion of serial and post-serial techniques →
language	French →
movement	avant-garde → integral serialism → serialism →
musicDirectorOf	New York Philharmonic →
notableWork	Le Marteau sans maître → Le Soleil des eaux → Le Visage nuptial → Notations (for piano and orchestra) → Pli selon pli → Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna → Répons → Structures I → Éclat →
occupation	composer → conductor → essayist → teacher →
placeOfBirth	Montbrison, Loire, France →
placeOfDeath	Baden-Baden, Germany →
principalConductorOf	BBC Symphony Orchestra →
principalGuestConductorOf	Chicago Symphony Orchestra →
regularlyConducted	Berlin Philharmonic → Cleveland Orchestra → Vienna Philharmonic →
residence	Baden-Baden → Paris →
studiedUnder	Olivier Messiaen → René Leibowitz →
style	complex rhythmic structures → expanded orchestral sonorities → use of controlled chance in later works →
wrote	Penser la musique aujourd’hui → Points de repère →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Arnold Schoenberg → Igor Stravinsky →	influenced
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance → Theodor W. Adorno Award →	notableRecipient
Pierre →	borneBy
Pierre Boulez ("Boulez") →	familyName
New York Philharmonic →	formerMusicDirector
Pierre Boulez ("Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez") →	fullName
Conservatoire de Paris →	hasAlumnus
Westminster Symphonic Choir →	hasCollaboratedWith
Polar Music Prize →	hasNotableLaureate
Deutsche Grammophon →	hasRecorded