Festival Messiaen 2025 – Conférence
22July2025(All periods)
Boulez, birth of an indomitable musician.
Moments of listening and meeting with the festival artists during conferences and intimate concerts at the water's edge facing the glaciers of the Meije.
Moments of listening and meeting with the festival artists during conferences and intimate concerts at the water's edge facing the glaciers of the Meije.
By Gaëtan Puaud, founder of the Messiaen Festival in the Pays de la Meije.
Young Pierre was 18 years old when he moved from Montbrison to Paris in the autumn of 1943. He chose a master, Messiaen, and obtained a 1st Prize in his harmony class at the Conservatoire in 1945.
Then, he discovered Schoenberg and Webern thanks to Leibowitz, who taught him the basics of dodecaphony.
Boulez is having a string of decisive encounters.
That of Jean-Louis Barrault who bombarded him, in 1946, as music director of the theater company he had just created.
Boulez gained experience conducting an instrumental ensemble there, which led him to become a symphonic conductor of 20th-century music concerts at the Südwestfunk orchestra in Baden-Baden.
Another encounter was with the poet René Char, who addressed him "three times with an objurgation": the cantata Le Visage nuptial, in 1946, Le Soleil des eaux in 1950, and the famous Marteau sans maître, created in 1955.
Young Pierre was 18 years old when he moved from Montbrison to Paris in the autumn of 1943. He chose a master, Messiaen, and obtained a 1st Prize in his harmony class at the Conservatoire in 1945.
Then, he discovered Schoenberg and Webern thanks to Leibowitz, who taught him the basics of dodecaphony.
Boulez is having a string of decisive encounters.
That of Jean-Louis Barrault who bombarded him, in 1946, as music director of the theater company he had just created.
Boulez gained experience conducting an instrumental ensemble there, which led him to become a symphonic conductor of 20th-century music concerts at the Südwestfunk orchestra in Baden-Baden.
Another encounter was with the poet René Char, who addressed him "three times with an objurgation": the cantata Le Visage nuptial, in 1946, Le Soleil des eaux in 1950, and the famous Marteau sans maître, created in 1955.
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