Boulez

[ boo-lez ]

noun

1. Pierre [pee-, air, pye, r], 1925–2016, French composer and conductor.

Boulez

/ bulɛ; ˈbuːlɛz /

noun

1. BoulezPierre1925MFrenchMUSIC: composerMUSIC: conductor Pierre (pjɛr). born 1925, French composer and conductor, whose works employ total serialism

Example Sentences

But when I look back on his six seasons with the Philharmonic, the shortest stay for a maestro since that of Pierre Boulez in the 1970s, what I’ll remember most, and most fondly, is not any 19th-century warhorse but Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.”

From New York Times

Van Zweden, 63, will leave the New York Philharmonic this summer after six seasons as its music director, the shortest tenure of any maestro since Pierre Boulez, the eminent French composer and conductor who led the Philharmonic in the 1970s.

From New York Times

He also championed works by some of his most challenging contemporaries, particularly three towering figures in the European avant-garde: Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

From Los Angeles Times

He revealed the composer’s vision through many sonic shapes and forms, be they the lyricism of a Schubert adagio, the rapture of a Chopin nocturne, the otherworldly drama of Beethoven’s Opus 111 sonata, the shard-like intricacies of Boulez’s Second Sonata.

From Los Angeles Times

He was an architect in sound who made sonic edifices of a Beethoven sonata, or a Boulez one, that left you in awe.

From Los Angeles Times