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Who was Boulez, Pierre (1925-2016)
Pierre Boulez, born March 26, 1925 in Montbrison and died January 5, 2016 in Baden-Baden, was a French composer and conductor.

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Founder, then director of the Institute for Research and Acoustic/Music Coordination (IRCAM) and the Intercontemporain ensemble, he is also a professor at the Collège de France, ‘invention, technique and music for music’, from 1978 to 1995.
At the start of his career, he played an important role in developing serial music, electronic music and random music. His controversial views of the evolution of music earned him a reputation as a terrible child.

As a conductor, Pierre Boulez is known mainly for his direction of the works of composers of the 20th century such as Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schönberg, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varèse and Anton Webern, but Also the works of some of his contemporaries, such as Elliott Carter or György Ligeti. He was also musical director of the BBC, New York and Chicago Symphonic Orchestras.
In 1976, for the centenary of the Bayreuth festival, where he was regularly invited, he directed the Nibelung ring, a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner in a staging by Patrice Chéreau. During his career, Pierre Boulez will have been awarded twenty-six Grammy Awards.

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List of works by Pierre Boulez
Douze Notations for piano (1945).
Sonatine for flute et piano (1946; revised 1949).
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1946; revised 1949).
Le Visage nuptial for soprano, mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra (1946; revised 1951; revised 1988–89)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1948)
Livre pour quatuor (1948, revised 2011–12); two movements were reworked for string orchestra as Livre pour cordes (1968; revised 1989)
Le Soleil des eaux for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1948; revised 1950; revised 1958; revised 1965); text: 2 poems by René Char
Deux Études, musique concrète (1951–52)
Structures I for two pianos (1951–52)
Le Marteau sans maître for alto voice and six instruments (1953–55; revised 1957)
La Symphonie mécanique musique concrète for a film by Jean Mitry (1955)
L'Orestie incidental music for Aeschylus' trilogy the Oresteia, for voice and instrumental ensemble (1955)
Piano Sonata No. 3 (1955–57/63); unfinished
Le Crépuscule de Yang Koueï-Fei musique concrète for the radiophonic play by Louise Fauré (1957)
Pli selon pli for soprano and orchestra (1957–58, as Improvisations sur Mallarmé I and II; completed 1959–62; revised 1983; revised 1989)
Structures II for two pianos (1961)
Figures—Doubles—Prismes for orchestra (1957–58, as Doubles; revised 1964; revised 1968)
Éclat for ensemble (1965)
Domaines for clarinet (1968)
Domaines for clarinet and six instrumental groups (1968)
Cummings ist der Dichter for chorus and ensemble (1970; revised 1986)
Éclat/Multiples (1970); Éclat followed by a longer piece for a larger ensemble; unfinished
Rituel – in memoriam Bruno Maderna for orchestra in eight groups (1974)
Ainsi parla Zarathoustra incidental music for voice and ensemble (1974)
Messagesquisse for solo cello and six cellos (1976)
Répons for two pianos, harp, vibraphone, xylophone, cimbalom, ensemble and live electronics (1980; revised and expanded 1982; revised and expanded 1984)
Dérive 1 for six instruments (1984)
Dialogue de l'ombre double for clarinet and electronics (1985)
Mémoriale (…explosante-fixe… originel) for flute and ensemble (1985); an arrangement of the central section from the withdrawn work ...explosante-fixe...
Initiale for brass ensemble (1987)
Dérive 2 for eleven instruments (1988; revised 2002; expanded and completed 2006)
Anthèmes for violin (1991; revised and expanded 1994)
Fanfare for the 80th Birthday of Georg Solti for brass and percussion (1992; originally titled Dérive 3)
…explosante-fixe… for solo MIDI flute, two "shadow" flutes, chamber orchestra, and electronics (1991–93); three of nine projected movements
Incises for piano (1994; revised and expanded 2001)
Anthèmes II for violin and live electronics (1997)
sur Incises for three pianos, three harps and three percussionists (1996–98)
Une page d’éphéméride for piano (2005)
Pierre Boulez – Structures I
Performed by Pierre Boulez and Yvonne Loriod
Ia – 0:00 Ib – 3:26 Ic – 12:55
Structures I (1952) and Structures II (1961) are two related works for two pianos, composed by the French composer Pierre Boulez. The first book of Structures was begun in early 1951, as Boulez was completing his orchestral work Polyphonie X, and finished in 1952. It consists of three movements, or “chapters”, labelled Ia, Ib, and Ic, composed in the order a, c, b.
