Phrase by 'Pierre Boulez'

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The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Music , Me , Time , Good


I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Time , Work , Forget , War


Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Music , You , Me , People


Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Music , Way , Feeling , Trying


I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Music , Always , Say , Like


Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Me , Never , Experience , Knowledge


I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  You , I Am , Past , Improvement


Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Ideas , You , Good , Culture


In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

Author: Pierre Boulez - French Composer
  Life , Music , Work , Alone


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