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Pierre Boulez Quotes

1925–2016 France

Pierre Boulez (IPA: [pjɛʁ bulɛz]) (March 26, 1925 – January 5, 2016) was a French composer and conductor of contemporary classical music.

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Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

[A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierre Boulez (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.