1st Edition

Pierre Boulez and the Piano A Study in Style and Technique

By Peter O'Hagan Copyright 2017
364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a solo piano piece, Une page d’éphéméride , written some sixty years after his first attempts at composition. The piano has remained central to... Read more

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 A Parisian Apprenticeship

CHAPTER 2 Towards twelve-note technique

CHAPTER 3 First Sonata: … à René Leibowitz…

CHAPTER 4 Second Sonata: pulvériser le son

CHAPTER 5 Chance and Inspiration in Structures Premier Livre

CHAPTER 6 The Expansion of Serialism: Structures Deuxième Livre, Chapitre I

CHAPTER 7 Alea: Third Sonata, 1955-57

CHAPTER 8 At the Limits of Serialism: Structures Deuxième Livre, Chapitre II

CHAPTER 9 Sonate, « Que me veux-tu » : Third Sonata, 1957-63

CHAPTER 10 A competition piece and its consequences: Incises (1994/2001)

CHAPTER 11 A Codetta: Une page d’éphéméride (2005) ... A Work in Progress...

APPENDIX Objets trouvés: an interview with Pierre Boulez

Biography

Peter O’Hagan is a pianist and writer specialising in contemporary music. He is editor of British Music of the 1990s (Ashgate, 2003), and co-editor of Boulez Studies (2016).