Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium

Caroline Potter

doi:10.1017/9781805431237

Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez's early works as well as the role surrealism and French culture of the 1930s and 1940s played in shaping his radical new musical concepts.

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Organised Delirium

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of illustrations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction: Organised Delirium
pp 1-18

1 - Surrealism in the 1930s and 40s
pp 19-58

2 - ‘A flayed lion’: Boulez as student
pp 59-96

3 - Serialism and surrealism: Boulez's instrumental music 1946–8
pp 97-128

4 - Fureur et mystère: the first versions of Boulez's René Char settings
pp 129-160

5 - The charm of numbers: continuing threads in Boulez's later music
pp 161-184

Select bibliography
pp 185-192

Index
pp 193-197

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