Boulez, Pierre. (1925–2016)
"Eclat" - Signed Photograph in 1971 Program
Graphically interesting complete March 4, 1971 program from a performance by the important French composer and conductor, leading the BBC Sympohony Orchestra in a Munich Pro Musica Meisterzyklus performance which included Debussy's La Mer, Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin," and Boulez's own "Eclat." The complete program has been signed by Boulez on his own full-page portrait photograph. In fine condition."The seven-minute chamber work Eclat (1965) sounds like a direct continuation of the musical world of Pli selon pli, with its shiny percussion sonorities and mesmeric fixity. In 1970, Boulez added a new continuation, Multiples, to the original Eclat, with the intention, he said, of eventually writing a forty-minute piece using ever greater numbers of instruments...he has yet to fulfil this promise and the work remains unfinished. Despite this, the existing torso contains some of his most thrilling music, as the stasis of Eclat is gradually transformed into the propulsive energy of Multiples." (Gavin Thomas, on Compositiontoday.com) (12319)
Signed Photograph Classical Music