{"product_id":"boulez-in-context-hardback-9781009168649","title":"Boulez in Context (Hardback) 9781009168649","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBoulez in Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the creativity of Pierre Boulez, composer, conductor, writer and cultural force, within the vibrant intellectual contexts of twentieth-century arts and technology.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEdward Campbell (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009168649, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e436 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.812 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'essential.' Andy Hamilton, The Wire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePierre Boulez was a towering figure in contemporary music from the 1940s and 1950s to his death in 2016. This volume demonstrates his distinctive impact on new music and situates him within a wide range of contexts to enhance appreciation of the cultural embeddedness of his work. Successive sections consider his early life and education, his engagements with cultural, musical, literary and artistic modernism, his relationships with his modernist predecessors and contemporaries, and the intersections of his work with literature, visual art, mathematics, philosophy and technology. Contributors explore his various roles as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder, as well as his role in French cultural politics, his move to Germany and the time he spent in the United States. This book is essential for students and educators but also accessible to a general audience interested in Boulez's legacy and his unique position in recent music history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e I. Finding One's Way: Early Life and Education: 1. A composer without a biography: family and upbringing in Montbrison (1925–1940) Agnès Simon-Reecht\u003cbr\u003e 2. Boulez's music education Joseph Salem\u003cbr\u003e 3. Boulez and the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company Catherine Steinegger\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pétrus, Dante, Pierre and Bernard – a time of friendship Werner Strinz\u003cbr\u003e 5. Early ethnomusicological engagements (1944–1961) Paolo Dal Molin\u003cbr\u003e II. Musical Modernism: Negotiations with the Past: 6. The conjuncture of modernity Charles Wilson\u003cbr\u003e 7. Boulez and Debussy Caroline Potter\u003cbr\u003e 8. Boulez and Stravinsky Mark McFarland\u003cbr\u003e 9. Boulez and the Second Viennese Composers Jessica Payette\u003cbr\u003e 10. Brahms according to Schoenberg according to Boulez Robert Piencikowski\u003cbr\u003e 11. Boulez-Bartók-Varèse Werner Strinz\u003cbr\u003e 12. Boulez and Messiaen Jonas Lundblad\u003cbr\u003e III. Engagements with the Post-War Generation of Composers\u003cbr\u003e 13. Pierre Boulez and his contemporaries Philippe Albéra\u003cbr\u003e 14. Pierre Boulez and John Cage: a chronicle of chance and choice David Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e 15. Boulez and Stockhausen: three moments of musical form Pascal Decroupet\u003cbr\u003e 16. Festival time at Donauseschingen, Darmstadt and Le Domaine Musical Alastair Williams\u003cbr\u003e 17. The articulatory function of space: spatialisation in the music of Pierre Boulez Mark Delaere\u003cbr\u003e 18. Boulez and his 'useless' contemporaries: from polemics to reconciliations Caroline Rae\u003cbr\u003e 19. In praise of Pierre: fragments of correspondence with Stockhausen, Messiaen, Ligeti and Carter Edward Campbell\u003cbr\u003e IV. Creative Engagements beyond Music: 20. Boulez's poets Zbigniew Granat\u003cbr\u003e 21. Boulez's writers: novelistic engagements Larson Powell\u003cbr\u003e 22. Boulez and visual art Sarah Barbedette\u003cbr\u003e 23. Counting music: Boulez and mathematics Catherine Losada\u003cbr\u003e 24. Boulez among the philosophers Edward Campbell\u003cbr\u003e 25. The technological dimension: from the Études to IRCAM Peter Nelson\u003cbr\u003e 26. Boulez and exoticism Philippe Albéra\u003cbr\u003e V. Multiple Activities: 27. Boulez the writer: from Stocktakings to Music Lessons Jonathan Dunsby\u003cbr\u003e 28. Boulez as teacher Edward Campbell\u003cbr\u003e 29. Boulez the conductor Erik Levi\u003cbr\u003e 30. Boulez on record Nigel Simeone\u003cbr\u003e 31. Pierre Boulez at the BBC John Wyver\u003cbr\u003e VI. At Home and Abroad: 32. Boulez and French cultural politics Laurent Bayle\u003cbr\u003e 33. At home in Baden-Baden: Boulez in Germany (1951\/1958\/1967) Martin Zenck\u003cbr\u003e 34. Boulez in North America Edward Campbell\u003cbr\u003e VII. Legacy: 35. Remembering Pierre George Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e 36. 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