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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French Composer
Born: Mar 26, 1925
Died: Jan 5, 2016
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Related authors: Claude Debussy Hector Berlioz Jules Massenet Maurice Jarre Maurice Ravel Olivier Messiaen Pierre Schaeffer
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. Pierre Boulez
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I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience. Pierre Boulez
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I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail. Pierre Boulez
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The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it. Pierre Boulez
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My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life. Pierre Boulez
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I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator. Pierre Boulez
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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. Pierre Boulez
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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. Pierre Boulez
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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. Pierre Boulez
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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. Pierre Boulez
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