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I’ve written several times in these newsletters about Pierre Boulez, the conductor, but this week I’d like to talk about Boulez as composer. A student of Olivier Messiaen and René Leibowitz, Boulez is often regarded
as one of the most important twentieth-century French composers. He is perhaps best known for his attempts to push the boundaries of serialism, as well as investigating the ideas of improvisation and controlled chance (most notably in the Third Piano Sonata, where to a certain extent the performer decides upon the ordering of the various sections).
