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Pierre Boulez - Première sonate pour piano (1946)
Performer: Pi-Hsien Chen
00:00 - I. Lent – Beaucoup plus allant
05:00 - II. Assez large – Rapide
In early 1945, Boulez, who had been studying with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire, attended a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Wind Quintet, conducted by René Leibowitz. Boulez later reflected: "It was a revelation to me. It obeyed no tonal laws and I found in it a harmonic and contrapuntal richness and a consequent ability to develop, extend, and vary ideas that I had not found anywhere else. I wanted, above all, to know how it was written". Boulez and a group of fellow students sought out Leibowitz and began studying privately with him. Thanks to Leibowitz, Boulez became familiar with the music of Anton Webern, who would prove to be a major influence.
Pierre Boulez - Première sonate pour piano (1946)
Performer: Pi-Hsien Chen
00:00 - I. Lent – Beaucoup plus allant
05:00 - II. Assez large – Rapide
In early 1945, Boulez, who had been studying with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire, attended a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Wind Quintet, conducted by René Leibowitz. Boulez later reflected: "It was a revelation to me. It obeyed no tonal laws and I found in it a harmonic and contrapuntal richness and a consequent ability to develop, extend, and vary ideas that I had not found anywhere else. I wanted, above all, to know how it was written". Boulez and a group of fellow students sought out Leibowitz and began studying privately with him. Thanks to Leibowitz, Boulez became familiar with the music of Anton Webern, who would prove to be a major influence.
