Composer Quiz

Pierre Boulez FRA [b 1925]
Group: Darmstadt School, Total serialism
Short description: Furious, most relaxed in a spazz sort of way, total serialism. Aleatoric music. Example of serial music with quartertones in his pieces Visage Nuptial and Polyphonie X.

Played 11 of 11 tracks for this composer (total 390 answers). Played blocks map:

Le Marteau Sans Maitre - Callithumpian Consort (36m)

Notations pour piano - Pi-Hsien Chen (9m)

Piano Sonata No 2 (32m)

Polyphonie X 1-3 (7m)

Polyphonie X 2-3 (4m)

Le Visage Nuptial (1946) - Part 1-4 Mvmnts 12 (9m)

Mesiaen/Track 10_Sonatina (14m)

Notations pour piano - Pi-Hsien Chen (9m)

Piano Sonata No 2 (32m)

Piano Sonata No.3 (Complete) (28m)

Sonata no. 1 (10m)

Last comments for this composer:

Rualark
2015-02-07 14:28:46

Two contemporary composers, having little in common. Both have piano pieces that can be most difficult to compare. Young is drone, slow and thinking. Also Young uses piano tuned to just intonation. Boulez is mathematical random chaos. (Boulez, Young)

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