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Structures – Premier Livre

for two pianos

Composer:
Pierre Boulez
Composition:
1951-1952; revised in 1953
Duration:
12 min Publisher’s inscription

Premiere

  • Partial (Ia): 7 May 1952, in Paris (Comédie des Champs-Élysées, L’Œuvre du XXe siècle festival), by Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez.
  • Partial (Ic): 22 December 1952, in New York (McMillin Theatre, Columbia University), by David Tudor and Pierre Boulez.
  • Complete: 4 May 1955, in Paris (Petit Théâtre Marigny, Domaine musical), by Yvonne Loriod and Hans Alexander Kaul.

Work structure

3 pieces:

  • Ia – Très modéré
  • Ib – Très rapide
  • Ic – Assez rapide

Instrumentation

2 pianos

Publisher

Universal Edition (London), cop. 1955 [UE 12267]

Source: Excerpt from Pierre Boulez : catalogue de l’œuvre, edition prepared by Alain Galliari, Éditions de la Philharmonie, 2025.

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