The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, known as one of the fathers of avant-garde music of the twentieth century and for directing some of the most prestigious orchestras in the world, died at age 90 on Tuesday night (01/05/2016) in the German town of Baden-Baden, confirmed today its office in Paris. Boulez had health problems for some time and lived with his family in the town in southwestern Germany.
During his career did evolve twelve-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg called serial music, a stream of new music created on numerical or proportional series.
Boulez was cultural manager, musical philosopher, professor and founder of the Parisian research institute IRCAM sound and music.
His international career took him from the then Symphony Orchestra Südwestfunk radio station in Baden-Baden at the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London and New York Philharmonic. Boulez was awarded numerous international awards.
musical Renewal
Born March 26, 1925, this musical innovator rocked the music world, facing numerous composers, living and dead, and overcoming difficulties. But he never left confused in their search for the new.
Ravel, Stravinsky, Schoenberg left behind. The “freak” Math, son of a steel maker Montbrison in the Loire Valley, did evolve twelve-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg to develop the so-called serial music, composed based on numerical series or proportions.
These musical constructions as rigid earned him the nickname “Robespierre” in the 50s, referring to the French revolutionary leader.
Boulez was cultural manager, musical philosopher, professor and founder of the Parisian research institute and acoustic music IRCAM.
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The news of the death of Boulez generated a chain of reactions in the world of music in France, but also the authorities, and so the president, François Hollande, paid tribute to emphasize that he had “made French music shine in the world” and “gave considerable prestige to French culture.”
“As composer and conductor, always wanted to reflect on his time, “Hollande said in a statement from the Elysee, which noted that the Philharmonie de Paris, which opened a year ago,” owes much. “
The Argentine-Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim today deplored the death of the musician, who for him is always “a man of the future.”
“The world has lost one of its most important composers and directors and I lost a friend and a colleague whose creative spirit never cease to admire, “Barenboim said in a press release.
Barenboim, musical director of the Staatsoper of the German capital, agreed for the first time with Boulez in 1964 in a concert at the Berlin Philharmonic.
FEW (DPA, EFE)
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