Boulez: Orchestral Works

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Explore the complete catalog of Orchestral compositions by Boulez. This curated list includes composition years, historical Wikipedia context, and interactive audio to add specific tracks directly to your listening queue.

Title Year Actions
...explosante-fixe..., for flutes and orchestra

...explosante-fixe... (French: ...exploding-fixed...) is a piece of music composed by Pierre Boulez. Initially conceived in 1971 as a memorial for Igor Stravinsky, who died in April of that year, several different versions of the work were composed by Boulez between 1972 and 1993, culminating in a piece for solo MIDI-flute and chamber orchestra.

Doubles, for large orchestra

Figures—Doubles—Prismes is a composition for orchestra by French composer Pierre Boulez. His first purely orchestral work, it is an expansion of an earlier piece dating from 1958 titled Doubles.

Figures - Doubles - Prisms, for orchestra

Figures—Doubles—Prismes is a composition for orchestra by French composer Pierre Boulez. His first purely orchestral work, it is an expansion of an earlier piece dating from 1958 titled Doubles.

Livre pour Cordes, for orchestra

Livre pour cordes (Book for strings) is a 1968 composition for string orchestra by Pierre Boulez. It is a revised and expanded version of the first two movements of the composer's Livre pour quatuor.

Rèpons, for 2 pianos, harp, vibes, glockenspiel, cimbalon, orchestra and electronics
Rituel: In Memoriam Bruno Maderna, for orchestra

Bruno Maderna (born Bruno Grossato, 21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher.