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 Pierre
Boulez was born in 1925 in Montbrison, France. He first studied
mathematics, then music at the Paris Conservatory, where his teachers
included Olivier Messiaen and René Leibowitz. In 1954, with
the support of Jean-Louis Barrault, he founded the “Domaine
musical” in Paris – one of the first concert series dedicated
entirely to the performance of modern music – and remained
their director until 1967. Boulez began his conducting career in
1958 with the Südwestfunk Orchestra in Baden-Baden, Germany.
From 1960 to 1962 he taught composition at the Music Academy in
Basle. As a composer, conductor and teacher, Pierre Boulez has made
a decisive contribution to the development of music in the 20th
century and inspired generations of young musicians with his pioneering
spirit. His recordings have earned him a total of 26 Grammys and
vast numbers of other prestigious awards. Continue
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