Iconoclast, titan, maverick. Even when it is not his centennial year, such superlatives to describe Pierre Boulez abound. These brash identities, however, are arguably informed by his writings rather than his music. Many composers were notoriously opinionated, but few were as prolific as Boulez about writing their scathing judgments down. He has excoriated Arnold Schoenberg […]

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