Troisième Sonate

This wonderful Sonata was composed by Boulez in 1958 and first performed by him on the following year. Of its original five movements only two are regularly played: “Trope” and “Constellation-Mirroir”. It is an example of aleatoric music, in which some elements of the composition are left to chance. As many of Boulez’s, he worked on the composition until 1963, the three non performed today movements, were considered by the composer as less achieved than the others.

Daniel Teruggi