Boulez piano concert

[Stéphane Collin]

Hi Richard.

Pierre Boulez was born on 26 March 1925 in Montbrison (south of France).  He 
studied composition in Olivier Messiaen's class (in Paris) and serial 
techniques with René Leibowitz.  He is a busy and well appreciated 
conductor.  Since 1976 and up to 1991, he is director of the Institut de 
Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) (funny : as such, he 
long benefitted himself alone of approximately half the whole budget of 
France nation for music).  In his first compositions, the two sonatas for 
piano (1946 and 1948), Boulez resumes the serial language of Shoenberg, 
Messiaen and Webern.  With the first book of Structures for two pianos 
(1951 - 1952), he creates the "total" serialism, in which not only pitches 
but all aspects of music (loudness, duration, attack, timbre, etc.) obey to 
the serie.  In his third sonata for piano, Boulez lets the hazard interfere 
in his music, like John Cage, but within strict limits.  Same in the second 
book of Structures (1956 - 1961), where the interprets have sometimes some 
freedom.  This shows the influence of the late 19th century symbolic poet 
Stéphane Mallarmé on Boulez (Mallarmé did apply hazard and freedom of the 
reader to poetry).  Boulez has produced a great number of theoretical essays 
whose radical thoughts made him one of the central figures of the European 
avant-garde.

More if wanted.

Regards

Stéphane Collin.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek@broadpark.no>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:16 PM
Subject: Boulez piano concert


> Hi folks
>
> I need any information any of you might have on the following composer and 
> pieces.  In particular the last piece.
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> Thanks
> RicB
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> Pierre Boulez
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> Sonata No.1 (ca. 9')
> Sonata No.2 (ca. 32')
> Sonata No.3 (ca. 21'?)
> Notations (10')
> Incises (11')
> Structures II
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