Pierre Boulez’s Sur Incises and Its World

Performer and researcher Peter O’Hagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulez’s later output.

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