Pierre Boulez’s intellectual curiosity can never be sated, one suspects, ... Boulez’s Ninth is more in the Otto Klemperer vein: gaunt, granitic, unadorned.

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself. Pierre Boulez in 1971, the ...

Pierre Boulez was born March 26, 1925, in the small town of Montbrison in the Loire region of France to a family that had “nothing to do with music,” he told the Guardian newspaper in a 1989 ...

Pierre Boulez in 1971. One of his late, monumental works, the 45-minute, 11-instrumentalist “Dérive 2,” will be performed at Zankel Hall on Saturday.

Composer Pierre Boulez, who died at age 90 in January, left a musical legacy that is still being explored and has yet to be fully assimilated. The combination in his music of structural rigor and ...

Pierre Boulez: 'I was a bully, I’m not ashamed' Composer Pierre Boulez, one of the greatest and most controversial figures in classical music, is as combative and unrepentant as ever.

Pierre Boulez, who began his career as a radical modernist composer dedicated to overthrowing classical traditions and lived to become one of the most revered and sought-after orchestral ...

Pierre Boulez was a realist, says Ivan Hewett. A nyone who loves modern music, and classical music in general, will today feel saddened by the death of Pierre Boulez.

Pierre Boulez' best-known work, Le Marteau sans Maitre (Hammer Without a Master), was first performed for a public of more than musical specialists at the 1955 festival in Aix-en-Provence. The ...