Pierre Boulez's career as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder was both influential and controversial. This book explores his early life, education, engagements with his modernist predecessors and contemporaries, and the importance for him of literature, visual art, mathematics, philosophy and technology.
Pierre Boulez's career as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder was both influential and controversial. This book explores his early life, education, engagements with his modernist predecessors and contemporaries, and the importance for him of literature, visual art, mathematics, philosophy and technology.
Introduction I. Finding One's Way: Early Life and Education: 1. A composer without a biography: family and upbringing in Montbrison (1925-1940) Agnès Simon-Reecht 2. Boulez's music education Joseph Salem 3. Boulez and the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company Catherine Steinegger 4. Pétrus, Dante, Pierre and Bernard - a time of friendship Werner Strinz 5. Early ethnomusicological engagements (1944-1961) Paolo Dal Molin II. Musical Modernism: Negotiations with the Past: 6. The conjuncture of modernity Charles Wilson 7. Boulez and Debussy Caroline Potter 8. Boulez and Stravinsky Mark McFarland 9. Boulez and the Second Viennese Composers Jessica Payette 10. Brahms according to Schoenberg according to Boulez Robert Piencikowski 11. Boulez-Bartók-Varèse Werner Strinz 12. Boulez and Messiaen Jonas Lundblad III. Engagements with the Post-War Generation of Composers 13. Pierre Boulez and his contemporaries Philippe Albéra 14. Pierre Boulez and John Cage: a chronicle of chance and choice David Bernstein 15. Boulez and Stockhausen: three moments of musical form Pascal Decroupet 16. Festival time at Donauseschingen, Darmstadt and Le Domaine Musical Alastair Williams 17. The articulatory function of space: spatialisation in the music of Pierre Boulez Mark Delaere 18. Boulez and his 'useless' contemporaries: from polemics to reconciliations Caroline Rae 19. In praise of Pierre: fragments of correspondence with Stockhausen, Messiaen, Ligeti and Carter Edward Campbell IV. Creative Engagements beyond Music: 20. Boulez's poets Zbigniew Granat 21. Boulez's writers: novelistic engagements Larson Powell 22. Boulez and visual art Sarah Barbedette 23. Counting music: Boulez and mathematics Catherine Losada 24. Boulez among the philosophers Edward Campbell 25. The technological dimension: from the Études to IRCAM Peter Nelson 26. Boulez and exoticism Philippe Albéra V. Multiple Activities: 27. Boulez the writer: from Stocktakings to Music Lessons Jonathan Dunsby 28. Boulez as teacher Edward Campbell 29. Boulez the conductor Erik Levi 30. Boulez on record Nigel Simeone 31. Pierre Boulez at the BBC John Wyver VI. At Home and Abroad: 32. Boulez and French cultural politics Laurent Bayle 33. At home in Baden-Baden: Boulez in Germany (1951/1958/1967) Martin Zenck 34. Boulez in North America Edward Campbell VII. Legacy: 35. Remembering Pierre George Benjamin 36. Boulez: the legacy Arnold Whittall.
Introduction I. Finding One's Way: Early Life and Education: 1. A composer without a biography: family and upbringing in Montbrison (1925-1940) Agnès Simon-Reecht 2. Boulez's music education Joseph Salem 3. Boulez and the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company Catherine Steinegger 4. Pétrus, Dante, Pierre and Bernard - a time of friendship Werner Strinz 5. Early ethnomusicological engagements (1944-1961) Paolo Dal Molin II. Musical Modernism: Negotiations with the Past: 6. The conjuncture of modernity Charles Wilson 7. Boulez and Debussy Caroline Potter 8. Boulez and Stravinsky Mark McFarland 9. Boulez and the Second Viennese Composers Jessica Payette 10. Brahms according to Schoenberg according to Boulez Robert Piencikowski 11. Boulez-Bartók-Varèse Werner Strinz 12. Boulez and Messiaen Jonas Lundblad III. Engagements with the Post-War Generation of Composers 13. Pierre Boulez and his contemporaries Philippe Albéra 14. Pierre Boulez and John Cage: a chronicle of chance and choice David Bernstein 15. Boulez and Stockhausen: three moments of musical form Pascal Decroupet 16. Festival time at Donauseschingen, Darmstadt and Le Domaine Musical Alastair Williams 17. The articulatory function of space: spatialisation in the music of Pierre Boulez Mark Delaere 18. Boulez and his 'useless' contemporaries: from polemics to reconciliations Caroline Rae 19. In praise of Pierre: fragments of correspondence with Stockhausen, Messiaen, Ligeti and Carter Edward Campbell IV. Creative Engagements beyond Music: 20. Boulez's poets Zbigniew Granat 21. Boulez's writers: novelistic engagements Larson Powell 22. Boulez and visual art Sarah Barbedette 23. Counting music: Boulez and mathematics Catherine Losada 24. Boulez among the philosophers Edward Campbell 25. The technological dimension: from the Études to IRCAM Peter Nelson 26. Boulez and exoticism Philippe Albéra V. Multiple Activities: 27. Boulez the writer: from Stocktakings to Music Lessons Jonathan Dunsby 28. Boulez as teacher Edward Campbell 29. Boulez the conductor Erik Levi 30. Boulez on record Nigel Simeone 31. Pierre Boulez at the BBC John Wyver VI. At Home and Abroad: 32. Boulez and French cultural politics Laurent Bayle 33. At home in Baden-Baden: Boulez in Germany (1951/1958/1967) Martin Zenck 34. Boulez in North America Edward Campbell VII. Legacy: 35. Remembering Pierre George Benjamin 36. Boulez: the legacy Arnold Whittall.
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