The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez orchestra, a major figure in contemporary music known and celebrated around the world, died Tuesday night in Baden-Baden in Germany.
Pierre Boulez, who was installed in Germany for over 50 years, enjoyed abroad will have a greater than in France, where he suffered for his voluntary exile a reputation dogmatism and aridity that did not do justice to the man, renowned warm and teacher.
Pierre Boulez was almost a “demi-god” for us, the “younger generation” testified Michael Haefliger, the steward of the Lucerne Music Festival where Boulez founded in 2003 a popular academy each year by 130 students from around the world.
In love with poetry and painting as well as music, it will remain as one of the great intellectual figures of the second half of the 20th century .
“He scored his time. He was one of the greatest composer of the twentieth century and I think that works like + Répons + or + Le Marteau Sans Maître + will remain forever in the history of the music, “said the director of the Opéra de Paris, Stéphane Lissner Wednesday AFP.
” Pierre Boulez has shone the French music in the world. As a composer and conductor, he has always wanted to think his time, “responded the president Francois Hollande.
” This is the musical personality of the second moist twentieth century that will leave the track most important, “said Laurent Bayle, president of the Philharmonie de Paris, a project initiated by Boulez.
” He felt with his head and thought with his heart, “responded the leader? s orchestra Israeli -argentin Daniel Barenboim, regretting the loss of “a wonderful creative spirit and a close friend.”
Head of great orchestra, he conducted no wand, but had precisely codified gestures . Almost blind, he could not steer for several years, but the Parisians remember free concerts he directed until 2011 under the Pyramid of the Louvre, for a captivated public.
The keen eye but hesitant gait, he came to Paris in 2013 for the publication of the full of his work for Deutsche Grammophon, which he considered “a bottle in the sea”, “a work in progress.”
Refusing to freeze a work he constantly reworked, Pierre Boulez was launched with his usual bluntness: “I do not want to be a historical tapestry that unfolds birthdays”
“It was a very strong personality , will be appreciated very quickly realize and French do not yet know all one needs him on the place of music in France, “testified the violinist Renaud Capuçon. “The French have this great talent not to appreciate their great men,” added the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, installed as Boulez in Germany.
Born March 26, 1925 in Montbrison in the Loire and extremely secret about his childhood, Pierre Boulez studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he was a student of Olivier Messiaen.
“Le Marteau Sans Maître” for alto and six instruments, he writes between 1953 and 1955, founded a new musical language. In 1954 he founded in Paris the concerts of the Domaine Musical, which he animated until 1967 to defend the vanguard of his time.
Head searched both sides of the Atlantic, he led the Cleveland Orchestra (1967-1972), the BBC Symphony (1971-1975) and the New York Philharmonic (1971-1977).
At the opera, Pierre Boulez participated in many memorable productions such as “Ring Centennial” with Patrice Chéreau at the Bayreuth Festival (1976-1980).
Enraged by the conservative attitude of the French musical world, he had exiled in Baden-Baden at the dawn of the 1960s, triggering strong reactions in France. He was returned to France in 1974, when President Georges Pompidou had asked him to found a single laboratory for contemporary music in the world, IRCAM (Institute of Research and Acoustic / Music Coordination) and Ensemble Intercontemporain.
This tireless builder of institutions was also responsible for the City of Music (inaugurated in 1995) and the Philharmonie de Paris, which opened in January 2015 without him, so that he was already ill
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