I was just starting a thread about it as well. In my humble opinion, the greatest composer alive (till today):
In german: http://www.zeit.de/kultur/musik/2016-01/pierre-boulez-tot-dirigent-komponist

 

This is indeed sad news, if not wholly unexpected - he was an old man, after all. Rest in peace, monsieur! He was (and remains) my favourite conductor, and his compositions fascinate me quite a bit. I think listening to his recordings today is in order.

 

R.I.P.

By sheer coincidence I just played this one earlier today:

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Rest in peace. Great composer & conductor.

 

What a full life he led. RIP. Many of his recordings remain my favourite interpretations of a particular work.

 

What a full life he led.

There's a saying: It's a not a tragedy when a man dies at the end of his life.

Au revoir, Maestro.

 

Thanks for all the fantastic music!!

RIP.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/0...ic/pierre-boulez-french-composer-dies-90.html?referer=https://www.google.co.jp/

 

What a huge loss, there have been so few musicians with such incredible talent and drive.

 

A fascinating and sometimes infuriating musician and composer. I have always thought that turning to Boulez after Bernstein retired was the gutsiest thing the NY Phil ever did -- even if not everything he did worked out.

 

One of the crummier things about getting older is all of your heroes pass away. 2015/2016 has been a tough year in that regard. I am glad I discovered his music as not only palatable but fascinating to me while he was living.

 

By coincidence I am listening to him conduct 'The Firebird' as I come across the various Boulez RIP threads and posts. Rest in peace indeed, Maestro.

And luckily he has left a very substantial recorded legacy by which we will remember him in awe and with pleasure.

 

Arguably the greatest living composer till yesterday.

Tuesday, 5th of January 2016. A day I won't forget.

 

RIP, "an exemplary man of the future."

I was already just about to listen to my latest classical purchase, Ligeti conducted by Boulez.

 

I am sorry to see him go, especially after such a triumph as the celebrations of his 90th year. I wonder if the world of music realizes how much it has lost.

 

I was fortunate enough to have attended a number of CSO concerts that Boulez conducted, he will be sorely missed. From the CSO blog

https://csoarchives.wordpress.com/tag/boulez-90/

https://csoarchives.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/125-moments-032-boulezs-notations-vii/

 

The first time I saw him in person he was conducting an "open" orchestral rehearsal of something like Webern's "Five Pieces, Op.10" or Berg's "Three Pieces, Op.6". He stopped at one spot and said the intonation was not right. Now to these (my) ears it sounded fine but he zeroed in on one specific violinist, had that person adjust ever so slightly and lo & behold the chord DID sound better. At that moment I realized just how amazing a musician he was.

 

Sad at his passing but he has left us a legacy of music and recordings for which we should be thankful.

 

RIP Boulez, the you would not any do in your prime.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dq79z

...various Boulez from the BBC Radio 3 archive

(will be updated)

 

I never got to see him conduct in a concert.

 

Thanks for everything, M. Boulez. Hardly a week goes buy when I don't listen to one of your records.

 

Just saw this. How sad. I was beginning to get into his music since I heard Répons a month ago and it's now one of my favorite works.
Rest in peace.

 

Now he's playing music with Schoenberg in heaven.

 

Visionary. R.I.P.

 

The passing of Pierre Boulez represents the severing of one of the last living links to the vitality and heart of 20th century classical music history. Witnessing a Pierre Boulez-led concert meant being in the presence of that history, still unfolding, and I mourn this great musician's passing. It was an honor to meet him, first in Cleveland in 2004 or so, the last time in Chicago in 2011 or so. In concert, the orchestral works of Stravinsky, Debussy, Bartok, Schoenberg.... and even Ligeti's and Boulez's own music became breathtakingly alive under his guidance. RIP, Maestro Boulez.

 

My respects to one of the most amazing musicians (both as a composer and conductor) of the 20th century.