Pierre Boulez
Birthday
1925/03/26
Day of death
2016/01/05 (90 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Montbrison, Loire, France
Also know as
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Biography
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 dire...Read more
Acting
(1998) The Seventh Door
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(2000) Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
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(2002) Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
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(2020) Zappa
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(2009) For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes
as Self - Composer and Conductor
(1966) The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
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(1986) Alban Berg - Lulu
as Self - Conductor
(2000) Sur incises: A lesson by Pierre Boulez
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(1991) Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
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(2016) Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
(2004) Pierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis
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(1985) Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times
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(2011) Gustav Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10
as Conductor
(1979) Rituel
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(1980) Wagner: Siegfried
as Self - Conductor
(1980) Wagner: Das Rheingold
as Self - Conductor
(1980) Wagner: Götterdämmerung
as Self - Conductor
(1980) Wagner: Die Walküre
as Self - Conductor
(2007) From the House of the Dead
as Self - Conductor
(2002) One Night, One Life
as Self - Conductor
(2016) Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(1967) A Stravinsky Portrait
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(1993) Eclat
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(2007) Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Resurrection
as Self
(1996) Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
as Self
(2014) Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître
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(2010) Bartok: Concerto for Violin - Gidon Kremer, Pierre Boulez
as Self - conductor
(1996) Bruckner: Symphony No. 8: Wiener Philharmoniker
as Self - Conductor
(2010) Knots and Fields
as Self
(2004) A Labyrinth of Time
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(2005) Boulez at 80
as Self - conductor
(1983) The Making of 'The Ring des Nibelungen'
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(1985) Victoires de la musique
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(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(2004) Kulturplatz
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(1956) En direct de...
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