Pierre Boulez
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Pierre Boulez (26 Mar 1925 - )
An eminent composer and conductor, Boulez is a freethinker. He has been a guest conductor of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and musical director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. An author of musical criticism, he wrote Penser la Musique d’Aujourd’hui.
Joan Peyser’s authorized biography, Boulez (1976), reports her not unusual experience that “At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was and he replied, ‘Then I won’t show you the chapel where he prayed twice a day between the ages of six and sixteen.’ ”
