Description

• Composer: Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
• Format: Facsimile
• Instrumentation: Soprano, Orchestra
• Work: Pli selon pli (Portrait de Mallarmé) (1959)
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISMN: 9790008082078
• Size: 14.8 x 18.9 inches
• Pages: None

Description

To celebrate the composer’s 85th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the world première, the Paul Sacher Foundation and Universal Edition have published the two original manuscripts of the score for the first time: the pencil draft and a fair copy in different coloured inks. These fine examples of high-quality reproductions are also the earliest evidence of Boulez’s friendship with Paul Sacher. The composer presented the scores to Sacher in the early 1960s. The facsimiles are prefaced by an introduction, which places the work in a historical and aesthetic context and takes a look at the compositional techniques used. It is illustrated by a selection of manuscripts from different stages of the creative process, as well as other related documents.

Winner of “Deutscher Musikeditionspreis – Best Edition” in 2011.Avant-propos / Preface

Introduction

Biography / Discography / Illustrations

Facsimile: Score A (Pencil Manuscript)

Facsimile: Score B (Manuscript in Polychrome Indian Ink)

Facsimile: Score C (First Recasting – Transcription in Black in (extract)

Facsimile: Score D (Second Recasting – Collage/Montage Derived from the Photocopy of the First Recasting (extract)