Pierre Boulez

[gvopedz]

Composer, conductor, polemicist and iconoclast Pierre Boulez was born 100 years ago and, on his death in 2016, left classical music utterly changed.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/08/pierre-boulez-centenary--he-jolted-us-out-of-our-comfort-zone-antonio-pappano-martyn-brabbins-and-more-on-the-composer

 

[Rabshakeh]

17 hours ago, gvopedz said:

Composer, conductor, polemicist and iconoclast Pierre Boulez was born 100 years ago and, on his death in 2016, left classical music utterly changed.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/08/pierre-boulez-centenary--he-jolted-us-out-of-our-comfort-zone-antonio-pappano-martyn-brabbins-and-more-on-the-composer

 

I read that. I was pleased to see it in the Guardian, which increasingly doesn't acknowledge this kind of music. 

One of the great masters of the 20th century, to my mind.

[mjazzg]

And mine

[gvopedz]

Yes.  Right now I am listening to the Boulez piece, Le Marteau Sans Maître