WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ENSEMBLE

Boulez 100: Works by Boulez/Manoury, Mozart, and Schubert

The genesis of Pierre Boulez’s only string quartet Livre pour quatuor—begun by the composer in the late 1940s and left unfinished at the time of his death—resembles a veritable never­ending story. In 2018, Philippe Manoury, one of today’s leading French composers and a close artistic associate of Boulez, completed the fragment of the fourth movement based on the extant sketches. The West-Eastern Divan Ensemble per­forms Manoury’s version, which had its world premiere at the Pierre Boulez Saal, juxtaposing it with Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet and Schubert’s late String Quintet.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Quintet in A major K. 581Pierre Boulez - Livre pour quatuor IV (completed by Philippe Manoury) *** - ***Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C major D 956

Artists/Collaborators: Michael Barenboim

Next date:

• Date Friday, 13/June/2025 19:30
• Venue Pierre Boulez Saal
• Address Französische Straße 33 D, 10117 Berlin-Mitte