- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 26, 1925
- Place of Birth
- Montbrison, Loire, France
- Died
- January 5, 2016
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music. Born in Montbrison, in the Loire department of France, the son of an engineer, Boulez studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg and René Leibowitz. He began his professional career in the late 1940s as music director of the Renaud-Barrault theatre company in Paris. He was a leading figure in avant-garde music, playing an important role in the development of integral serialism in the 1950s, controlled chance music in the 1960s and the electronic transformation of instrumental music in real time from the 1970s onwards. His tendency to revise earlier compositions meant that his body of work was relatively sm…
Filmography
movieBéjart, 3 regards 2025
2026 · Music
Pierre Boulez - Der Weg ins Unbekannte
moviePierre Boulez - Der Weg ins Unbekannte
2025 · Lui-même
movieKlaus Mäkelä and Gustavo Dudamel 10 year anniversary of the Philharmonie de Paris
2025 · Compositor
movieCentenary of Pierre Boulez Ensemble Intercontemporain & Friends
2025 · Original Music Composer
movieRituel: Boulez & Millepied With Orchestre de Paris L.A Dance Project
2025 · Original Music Composer
movieElīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2021 · Original Music Composer
movieZappa
2020 · Self (archive footage)
moviePierre Boulez: Sur Incises
2017 · Original Music Composer
movieEat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016 · Self (archive footage)
moviePierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieMaurizio Pollini: De main de maître
2014 · Self
movieBest of Bayreuth: Highlights from Three Decades
2013 · Director
movieLiszt Piano Concertos - Daniel Barenboim / Pierre Boulez - Staatskapelle Berlin
2011 · Self - Conductor
movieMahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Adagio from Symphony No. 10
2011 · Conductor
Bartok: Concerto for Violin - Gidon Kremer, Pierre Boulez
movieBartok: Concerto for Violin - Gidon Kremer, Pierre Boulez
2010 · Self - conductor
Knots and Fields
movieKnots and Fields
2010 · Self
For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes
movieFor Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes
2009 · Self - Composer and Conductor
movieFrom the House of the Dead
2007 · Self - Conductor
movieGustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Resurrection
2007 · Self
moviePierre Boulez Conducts Modern Classics
2006 · Conductor
Boulez at 80
movieBoulez at 80
2005 · Self - conductor
tvKulturplatz
2004 · Self
movieA Labyrinth of Time
2004 · self
Pierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis
moviePierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis
2004 · Self
movieMa Mere l'Oye
2004 · Conductor
movieEuropakonzert 2003 from Lisbon
2003 · Self - Conductor
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
movieFrank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
2002 · Self
movieOne Night, One Life
2002 · Self - Conductor
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
movieFrank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
2000 · Self
movieSur incises: A lesson by Pierre Boulez
2000 · Self
movieThe Seventh Door
1998 · Self
movieAbbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996 · Self
movieBruckner: Symphony No. 8: Wiener Philharmoniker
1996 · Self - Conductor
movieEclat
1993 · Self
moviePelléas et Mélisande
1992 · Music Director
movieFrank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
1991 · Self
movieThe Amazing Mr. Bickford
1987 · Conductor
Split Screen
tvSplit Screen
1986
movieAlban Berg - Lulu
1986 · Self - Conductor
tvVictoires de la musique
1985 · Self
Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times
movieOtto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times
1985 · Self
movieBoulez-Répons
1985 · Music
movieWagner: The Making of The Ring
1983 · Self
movieWagner: Die Walküre
1980 · Self - Conductor, Music Director
movieWagner: Siegfried
1980 · Self - Conductor, Music Director
movieWagner: Götterdämmerung
1980 · Self - Conductor, Music Director
movieWagner: Das Rheingold
1980 · Self - Conductor, Music Director
Rituel
movieRituel
1979 · Self, Music
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
movieA Stravinsky Portrait
1967 · Self
movieTristan und Isolde
1967 · Conductor
movieThe Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
1966 · Self
tvEn direct de...
1956 · self