Pierre Boulez - The Three Piano Sonatas

Composed By - Pierre Boulez Piano - Paavali Jumppanen Recorded at Kuopio Music Centre, June & Juli 2004

Pierre Boulez

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Pierre Boulez (French: [pjÉ›Ê bu.lÉ›Ëz]; 26 March 1925 - 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, prolific writer and pianist. He was also the founder and director of the Paris based Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM).

In his early career, Boulez played a key role in the development of integral serialism, controlled chance and electronic music. This, coupled with his highly polemical views on the evolution of music, gained him the image of an enfant terrible.[1][2][3]

As a conductor, Boulez was known mainly for his performances of BÃ©la BartÃ³k, Alban Berg, Anton Bruckner, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Edgar VarÃ¨se, Richard Wagner and Anton Webern. He was awarded a total of 26 Grammy Awards during his career.

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Last years[edit]

Until his death, Boulez remained one of the leading exponents of 20th-century music and his legacy will undoubtedly be influential for many generations to come.[10] His compositions have made a contribution to musical culture, and his advocacy of modern and postmodern music has been decisive for many. Boulez continued to conduct and compose until his final days. From 1976 to 1995, Boulez held the Chair in "Invention, technique et langage en musique" at the CollÃ¨ge de France. In 2001, he was the recipient of the Grawemeyer Prize for music composition, for his work Sur Incises. In 2002, he was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize for his contributions. In 2004, with festival director Michael Haefliger, he founded the Lucerne Festival Academy, a summer orchestral institute for young musicians, dedicated to music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The resident professors are members of the Ensemble intercontemporain.

Early in 2012, Boulez cancelled conducting engagements after an eye operation left him with severely impaired sight.[22] Other health problems included a shoulder injury resulting from a fall.[23][24] He died on 5 January 2016 at the age of 90.[25]

Personal life[edit]

Boulez moved to Baden-Baden in the 1960s with a lifelong partner, whom he sometimes referred to as "his valet".[26

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