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
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orche
BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall
The BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in October 2012
John Reith, Director-General of the BBC
Guest conducting the BBC SO in the 1930s: from top left, clockwise, Beecham, Koussevitzky, Mengelberg, Richard Strauss, Toscanini, Walter, Webern, Weingartner