Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 A Parisian Apprenticeship

CHAPTER 2 Towards twelve-note technique

CHAPTER 3 First Sonata: … à René Leibowitz…

CHAPTER 4 Second Sonata: pulvériser le son

CHAPTER 5 Chance and Inspiration in Structures Premier Livre

CHAPTER 6 The Expansion of Serialism: Structures Deuxième Livre, Chapitre I

CHAPTER 7 Alea: Third Sonata, 1955-57

CHAPTER 8 At the Limits of Serialism: Structures Deuxième Livre, Chapitre II

CHAPTER 9 Sonate, « Que me veux-tu » : Third Sonata, 1957-63

CHAPTER 10 A competition piece and its consequences: Incises (1994/2001)

CHAPTER 11 A Codetta: Une page d’éphéméride (2005) ... A Work in Progress...

APPENDIX Objets trouvés: an interview with Pierre Boulez

About the Author

Peter O’Hagan is a pianist and writer specialising in contemporary music. He is editor of British Music of the 1990s (Ashgate, 2003), and co-editor of Boulez Studies (2016).