Pierre Boulez

Oh yes, Pierre Boulez loved provocation: »Schönberg is dead!« and »Blow up the opera houses!« are just two of the famous statements with which he left his mark on music history. Together with colleagues such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono, the French composer belonged to a group of young rogues who called for a completely new aesthetic after the Second World War. Boulez thus became the most important pioneer of music in which pitches, durations and volume are determined in advance by mathematical principles. His clear, analytical view of scores soon made him an equally sought-after conductor.