Pierre Boulez
Actor
Born March 26, 1925 in Montbrison, Loire, France
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music. Born in Montbrison, in the Loire department of France, the son of an engineer, Boulez studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg and René Leibowitz. He began his professional career in the late 1940s as music director of the Renaud-Barrault theatre company in Paris. He was a leading figure in avant-garde music, playing an important role in the development of integral serialism in the 1950s, controlled chance music in the 1960s and the electronic transformation of instrumental music in real time from the 1970s onwards. His tendency to revise earlier compositions meant that his body of work was relatively small, but it included pieces considered landmarks of twentieth-century music, such as Le Marteau sans maître, Pli selon pli and Répons. His uncompromising commitment to modernism and the trenchant, polemical tone in which he expressed his views on music led some to criticise him as a dogmatist.
Filmography
Béjart, 3 regards 2025
Klaus Mäkelä and Gustavo Dudamel 10 year anniversary of the Philharmonie de Paris
Centenary of Pierre Boulez Ensemble Intercontemporain & Friends
Rituel: Boulez & Millepied With Orchestre de Paris L.A Dance Project
Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Boulez: Sur Incises
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître
Self
Best of Bayreuth: Highlights from Three Decades
Liszt Piano Concertos - Daniel Barenboim / Pierre Boulez - Staatskapelle Berlin
Self - Conductor
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Conductor
From the House of the Dead
Self - Conductor
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Resurrection
Self
Pierre Boulez Conducts Modern Classics
Conductor
Kulturplatz
Self
A Labyrinth of Time
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Ma Mere l'Oye
Europakonzert 2003 from Lisbon
Self - Conductor
One Night, One Life
Self - Conductor
Sur incises: A lesson by Pierre Boulez
Self
The Seventh Door
Self
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8: Wiener Philharmoniker
Self - Conductor
Eclat
Self
Pelléas et Mélisande
Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
Self
The Amazing Mr. Bickford
Alban Berg - Lulu
Self - Conductor
Victoires de la musique
Self
Boulez-Répons
Wagner: The Making of The Ring
Self
Wagner: Siegfried
Self - Conductor
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Self - Conductor
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Self - Conductor
Wagner: Die Walküre
Self - Conductor
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
A Stravinsky Portrait
Self
Tristan und Isolde
The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
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