In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divided into four parts, the first three concerned with common preoccupations (aesthetic, technical, and polemical) and the last a collection of entries intended for a music encyclopedia. Boulez offers penetrating and provocative analyses of the music of the major figures of twentieth-century music including Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Debussy, Messiaen, and Ravel. His illuminating comments arise from intimate knowledge of the music, and...
In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divid...
Pierre Boulez is one of the most influential--and controversial--figures in the world of contemporary music. As composer, conductor, and critic, his challenging views of modern developments are lent a special authority by his high standing as an interpreter of classic composers. Orientations will enhance his reputation as a lucid expositor of the modern composer's world.
When writing about composing and analysis Boulez forges a new way of thinking about music. He is immensely illuminating about his own compositions. He offers special insight on composers with whom he has been...
Pierre Boulez is one of the most influential--and controversial--figures in the world of contemporary music. As composer, conductor, and critic, hi...
Pierre Boulez has held conducting positions with the BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as the orchestra of Chicago, Cleveland and New York. These interviews give us his views, wit, wisdom and beliefs. Here the theoretician of serial music talks about his career.
Pierre Boulez has held conducting positions with the BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as the orchestra of Chicago, Cleveland and New York. These intervi...
