Pierre Boulez - A Life for Music: Personal portrait of the radical composer of our time 

My first wife and I were Pierre's family when he was director of the NY Philharmonic. Being with him was a time away from the challenges of his musical career. I enjoyed his humor and his intellect and his need for human contact that was not demanding or critical. We broke a lot of bread together at our house and at Le Poullailer.

The Mahler piece at 48:45 isn’t from Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, it’s Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Saint Anthony’s Sermon to the Fish) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

A little-known petitesse: Boulez makes music with Lang Lang in Salzburg, - hard to believe, but true, as the excerpt from the 2006 programme shows: WOLFGANG A. MOZART Serenade für 12 Bläser und Kontrabass B-Dur KV 361 - „Gran Partita“ OLGA NEUWIRTH ...miramondo multiplo... für Trompete und Orchester Uraufführung - Auftragswerk der Salzburger Festspiele WOLFGANG A. MOZART Konzert für Klavier und Orchester G-Dur KV 453 INTERPRETEN Pierre Boulez, Dirigent Lang Lang, Klavier Håkan Hardenberger, Trompete Wiener Philharmoniker

Merveilleux, extraordinaire ! Mille mercis pour cela.

Bravo! An excellent documentary on a brilliant artist.

Thanks for this documentary about Boulez sadly now a largely forgotten figure i think.Young musicians i know don't know or understand his music and are looking elsewhere for good contemporary music both in classical and jazz music.Sad but true.

なんと良くまとめられたドキュメンタリー。

46:38 “I had the good fortune to pee two or three times at his glasses” 😂

when was made this? Wonderful upload

Ironic way to end a documentary about Pierre Boulez with... Mozart!

47.22 You would have thought that by now she would know the basics of beating time. It makes you wonder how and why some people get selected to take part in these types of events

My niece asked me what kind of music robots, machines and automatons would make. I told her to listen to Boulez. She did and she said it was like elevator music for a crash dummy factory.

Il savait au moins diriger un orchestre. Parce que pour le reste... Aie aie aie.

I prefer Morton Feldman.

Terrible documentary, tries to portray Boulez as a radical-composer, yet the whole documentary is filled with him conducting and talking about everything but his own works (a better title, how to appreciate and conduct Stravinsky, Berio, and Mahler) Says something about the true nature of his musical endeavors…