Orientations Collected Writings - Softcover

Pierre Boulez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571143474 ISBN 13: 9780571143474

Publisher: Faber Faber Inc, 1998

Synopsis

This volume contains a collection of writings by musician Pierre Boulez, who describes his own music and that of other composers, as well as the personalities and institutions with whom he has worked closely.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'Collected here in some 500 pages, is perhaps the most comprehensive and provocative statement of an aesthetic position mustered by a musician since Schoenberg.' ---New Statesmen

About the Author:

One of the most gifted and challenging composers of our time, Pierre Boulez (b. 1925) has achieved equal status as a conductor, notably of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic, and at Bayreuth. He is the founder and director of the world-renowned IRCAM Institute in Paris and of the associated Ensemble Intercontemporain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber Faber Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571143474
• ISBN 13: 9780571143474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Jean-Jacques Nattiez