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Avant "l'artisanat furieux" (1954)

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Album title: Boulez dirige Boulez. Le marteau sans maître
Title: Avant "l'artisanat furieux" (Track 01)
Publisher: Disques Adès, France / Harmonia Mundi, Germany
Date: 1954
Medium: record 30 cm
Cover: Maurice Tapiero
Performer: P.Boulez (cond.)

 

The French composer and musical avant-gardist Pierre Boulez played the album Boulez dirige Boulez.
Le marteau sans maître, on which the piece Avant "l'artisanat furieux", heard here, between 1952 and 1954 as a work for voice and six instruments; alto voice, alto flute, guitar, vibraphone, xylorimba, percussion and viola were used. First performed in 1955 at the 29th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Baden-Baden, the work was inspired by René Char's poems entitled Marteau sans maître. Poetic traditions, rationality, logic and impressionistic forms of expression characterized Boulez's compositions.

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