The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

The French composer and conductor despised the staid and conservative and desired no less than a classical music revolution.

watch an extract from the opening concert of the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin in March 2017. Daniel Barenboim conducted the Boulez Ensemble there in a dazzling performance of Sur Incises, composed by ...

Pierre Boulez at the Barbican review — the BBC at its best - 5/5 Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a ...

The visionary conductor and composer Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) was associated with the BBC for nearly 60 years: from an appearance at the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House in 1957 for a ...

Show more Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the influential composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform a concert dedicated to his ...

In Rencontres avec Pierre Boulez, Antoine Golea remarks that the critics were "very prudent, as if walking on tip-toes." Probably much of the audience at Friday evening's concert of music by ...

Today marks the 100th birthday of the late Pierre Boulez (March 26, 1925–January 5, 2016), the New York Philharmonic's Music Director from 1971–77. In commemoration of his centennial, the New York ...

Nicknamed the 'enfant terrible' of classical music, Pierre Boulez left his mark on the 20th century with his avant-garde creations and the founding of major musical institutions. To mark his centenary ...

In the mid-1950s Boulez took up conducting and instituted a concert series, the Domaine Musical, to provide an outlet for new music. By the mid-1960s he was widely known as a conductor, becoming chief ...