Pierre Boulez
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Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music.
Boulez in 1968
4, rue Beautreillis in Paris, where Boulez lived from 1945 to 1958
Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud in 1952, by Carl Van Vechten
The Salle Popesco in Paris, formerly the Petit Marigny
Olivier Messiaen
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Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th century, he was also an outstanding teacher of composition and musica
Pierre Boulez
…classical music. Born in Montbrison, in the Loire department of France, the son of an engineer, Boulez studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg and René Leibowitz. He began his professional career in the late 1940s as music director of the Renaud-Barrault…
Messiaen in 1937
Messiaen with his mother and father in 1910
Paul Dukas's composition class at the Paris Conservatoire, 1929. Messiaen sits at the far right; Dukas stands at the centre.
Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, where Messiaen was titular organist for 61 years