biography
pronunciation:
[boolez]
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Conductor and composer, born in Montbrison, SC France. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire (1943–5), and became musical director of Barrault's Théâtre Marigny (1948), where he established his reputation as an interpreter of contemporary music. During the 1970s he devoted himself mainly to his work as conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1971–5) and of the New York Philharmonic (1971–7), before becoming director of the Institut de Recherche et de Co-ordination Acoustique Musique (Ircam) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (1977–91). His early work as a composer rebelled against what he saw as the conservatism of such composers as Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Of his later works, Le Marteau sans maître (1955, The Hammer Without a Master) gained him a worldwide reputation, confirmed by Pli selon pli (Fold according to Fold) and his third piano sonata. |
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