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- Birth namePierre Louis Joseph Boulez
- Pierre Boulez was born on March 26, 1925 in Montbrison, Loire, France. He was a composer and writer, known for Heat (1995), Natural Born Killers (1994) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). He died on January 5, 2016 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- French composer (contemporary music) and conductor.
- Olivier Messiaen was his teacher.
- Awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award, in 1996.
- He studied at the Conservatoire in Paris. At the age of 21, he became musical director of the theater company of Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. His career as a conductor took off in the 1950s, during which time he performed with the Sudwestfunk (South-West German Radio). He also began appearing as guest conductor for some of Europe's leading orchestras and festivals.
- His last name is pronounced boo-LEZ.
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