Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) 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. Boulez was also one of the most prominent conductors of his generation. In a career lasting more than sixty years, he was music director of the New York Philharmonic, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. He made frequent appearances with many other orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. He was known for his performances of the music of the first half of the twentieth century—including Debussy and Ravel, Stravinsky and Bartók, and the Second Viennese School—as well as that of his contemporaries, such as Ligeti, Berio and Carter. His work in the opera house included the production of Wagner's Ring cycle for the centenary of the Bayreuth Festival, and the world premiere of the three-act version of Berg's opera Lulu. His recorded legacy is extensive. He also founded several musical institutions. In Paris he set up the Domaine musical in the 1950s to promote new music; in the 1970s he established the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM), to foster research and innovation in music, and the Ensemble intercontemporain, a chamber orchestra specialising in contemporary music. Later he co-founded the Cité de la musique, a concert hall, museum and library dedicated to music in the Parc de la Villette in Paris and, in Switzerland, the Lucerne Festival Academy, an international orchestra of young musicians, with which he gave first performances of many new works. ... Source: Article "Pierre Boulez" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Montbrison, Loire, France, 1925-03-26

Died: 2016-01-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse	Self	0
2	1967	A Stravinsky Portrait	Self	70
3	1979	Rituel	Self	80
4	1980	Wagner: Die Walküre	Self - Conductor	67
5	1980	Wagner: Siegfried	Self - Conductor	60
6	1980	Wagner: Götterdämmerung	Self - Conductor	65
7	1980	Wagner: Das Rheingold	Self - Conductor	64
8	1983	The Making of 'The Ring des Nibelungen'	Self	0
9	1985	Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times	Self	0
10	1986	Alban Berg - Lulu	Self - Conductor	0
11	1991	Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko	Self	0
12	1993	Eclat	Self	50
13	1996	Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music	Self	0
14	1996	Bruckner: Symphony No. 8: Wiener Philharmoniker	Self - Conductor	0
15	1998	The Seventh Door	Self	0
16	2000	Sur incises: A lesson by Pierre Boulez	Self	0
17	2000	Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die	Self	0
18	2002	One Night, One Life	Self - Conductor	0
19	2002	Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note	Self	0
20	2003	Europakonzert 2003 from Lisbon	Conductor	0
21	2004	Pierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis	Self	0
22	2004	A Labyrinth of Time	self	0
23	2005	Boulez at 80	Self - conductor	0
24	2007	Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Resurrection	Self	0
25	2007	From the House of the Dead	Self - Conductor	0
26	2009	For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes	Self - Composer and Conductor	0
27	2010	Bartok: Concerto for Violin - Gidon Kremer, Pierre Boulez	Self - conductor	0
28	2010	Knots and Fields	Self	0
29	2011	Gustav Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10	Conductor	0
30	2014	Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître	Self	0
31	2016	Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick	Self (archive footage)	0
32	2016	Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words	Self (archive footage)	73
33	2020	Zappa	Self (archive footage)	73
34	2025	Pierre Boulez - Der Weg ins Unbekannte	Lui-même	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	En direct de...	self	0
2	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
3	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
4	2004	Kulturplatz	Self	60

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