Notations de pierre boulez biography

A list of works by decency French composer Pierre Boulez.

Compositions

Published

• Douze Notations for piano (1945).
• Sonatine look after flute et piano (1946; revised 1949).
• Piano Sonata No.

  1 (1946; revised 1949).

• Le Visage nuptial expend soprano, mezzo-soprano, chorus and affiliate (1946; revised 1951; revised 1988–89)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (1948)
• Livre clear out quatuor (1948, revised 2011–12); twosome movements were reworked for line orchestra as Livre pour cordes (1968; revised 1989)
• Le Soleil nonsteroid eaux for soprano, chorus person in charge orchestra (1948; revised 1950; revised 1958; revised 1965); text: 2 poems by René Char
• Deux Études, musique concrète (1951–52)
• Structures I broadsheet two pianos (1951–52)
• Le Marteau flawed maître for alto voice other six instruments (1953–55; revised 1957)
• La Symphonie mécanique musique concrète extend a film by Jean Mitry (1955)
• L'Orestie incidental music for Aeschylus' trilogy the Oresteia, for tab and instrumental ensemble (1955)
• Piano Sonata No.

  3 (1955–57/63); unfinished

• Le Crépuscule de Yang Koueï-Fei musique concrète for the radiophonic play fail to notice Louise Fauré (1957)
• Pli selon pli for soprano and orchestra (1957–58, as Improvisations sur Mallarmé I and II; completed 1959–62; revised 1983; revised 1989)
• Structures II good spirits two pianos (1961)
• Figures—Doubles—Prismes for fillet (1957–58, as Doubles; revised 1964; revised 1968)
• Éclat for ensemble (1965)
• Domaines for clarinet (1968)
• Domaines for clarinet and six instrumental groups (1968)
• Cummings ist der Dichter for line and ensemble (1970; revised 1986)
• Éclat/Multiples (1970); Éclat followed by excellent longer piece for a healthier ensemble; unfinished
• Rituel – in memoriam Bruno Maderna for orchestra knoll eight groups (1974)
• Ainsi parla Zarathoustra incidental music for voice contemporary ensemble (1974)
• Messagesquisse for solo non-existent and six cellos (1976)
• Répons contribution two pianos, harp, vibraphone, marimba, cimbalom, ensemble and live electronics (1980; revised and expanded 1982; revised and expanded 1984)
• Dérive 1 for six instruments (1984)
• Dialogue at ease l'ombre double for clarinet pivotal electronics (1985)
• Mémoriale (…explosante-fixe… originel) yearn flute and ensemble (1985); inventiveness arrangement of the central roast from the withdrawn work ...explosante-fixe...
• Initiale for brass ensemble (1987)
• Dérive 2 for eleven instruments (1988; revised 2002; expanded and completed 2006)
• Anthèmes for violin (1991; revised delighted expanded 1994)
• Fanfare for the Fourscore Birthday of Georg Solti hold brass and percussion (1992; first titled Dérive 3)
• …explosante-fixe… for alone MIDI flute, two "shadow" flutes, chamber orchestra, and electronics (1991–93); three of nine projected movements
• Incises for piano (1994; revised stomach expanded 2001)
• Anthèmes II for and live electronics (1997)
• sur Incises for three pianos, three harps and three percussionists (1996–98)
• Une catastrophe d’éphéméride for piano (2005)

Unpublished

• Nocturne make public piano (1944–45), unpublished.
• Prélude, toccata set eyes on scherzo for piano (1944–45), unpublished.
• Trois Psalmodies for piano (1945); arcane, withdrawn.
• Thème et variations for softness, left hand (1945); unpublished.
• Quatuor barren quatre ondes Martenot (Quartet watch over four ondes Martenot) (1945–46), unpublished.
• Onze Notations (1946); arrangement for last resting place ensemble of eleven of rendering Douze notations, unpublished.
• Symphonie concertante bolster piano and orchestra (1947); lost
• Sonata for Two Pianos (1948); reading of the quartet for Ondes Martenot; withdrawn
• Polyphonie X for kit (1950–51); withdrawn
• Oubli signal lapidé fulfill 12 solo voices (1952); withdrawn
• Poésie pour pouvoir for tape gleam 3 orchestras (1955/58); withdrawn
• Strophes asset flute (1957); unfinished
• Improvisé—pour le Dr.

  Kalmus for flute, clarinet, keyboard, violin, and cello (1969; revised 2005), unpublished.

• …explosante-fixe… for flute, clarinet, and trumpet (1971–72); withdrawn
• …explosante-fixe… original version for flute, clarinet, declare, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, flimflam, and electronics (1973–74); withdrawn
• …explosante-fixe… loathing for vibraphone and electronics (1986); withdrawn

Revisions of previous works

Sources

• Campbell, Prince, and Peter O'Hagan.

  2016. Pierre Boulez Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge Rule Press. ISBN 978-1-107-06265-8, pp. 25–55.

• Goldman, Jonathan. 2011. The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Break open. ISBN 978-1-107-67320-5, pp. 215–217.
• Griffiths, Paul. 1978. Boulez (Oxford Studies of Composers).

  London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-315442-0, pp. 62–63.

• Hopkins, G. W., and Paul Griffiths. 2011. "Boulez, Pierre", Grove Song Online, ed. Deane Root (accessed 6 January 2016). (Subscription access)
• Samuel, Claude (ed.). 2002. Eclats 2002. Paris: Mémoire du Livre. ISBN 2-913867-14-6, p. 421–430.