Pierre Boulez: advisors and students

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Pierre Boulez

French composer, conductor and writer1925 to 2016

Wikidata names Andrée Vaurabourg, Olivier Messiaen, and René Leibowitz as teachers and lists 17 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Teachers and mentors3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Andrée Vaurabourg
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Olivier Messiaen
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
René Leibowitz

Taught17

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Kåre Opdal
born 1929
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Sylvano Bussotti
born 1931
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Dalia Atlas
born 1933
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Bernard Rands
born 1934
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Isaac Karabtchevsky
born 1934
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Jean-Claude Casadesus
born 1935
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Zoltán Peskó
born 1937
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Heinz Holliger
born 1939
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Michel Tabachnik
born 1942
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Silvana Di Lotti
born 1942
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ivan Tcherepnin
born 1943
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Simón Suárez
born 1947
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Lourival Silvestre
born 1949
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Martinho Lutero Galati
born 1953
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ángel Gil-Ordóñez
born 1957
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Marc-André Dalbavie
born 1961
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Patrick Davin
born 1962

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1976 to 1995
Collège de France
worked
undated
Conservatoire de Paris
studied

At a glance

known as: conductor, composer, musicologist, music theorist, university teacher, pianist, musician, writer, musicographer
fields: music
awards: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Medal for Merit to Culture, Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno Award, 1992, Praemium Imperiale, 1989, Léonie Sonning Music Prize, 1985, Glenn Gould Prize, 2002, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, 1997, Berliner Kunstpreis, 1996, Grawemeyer Awards, 2001, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1979, Grammy Awards, Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 1979, Polar Music Prize, 1996, Wolf Prize in Arts, 2000, Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, 2009, Edison Music Awards, 2010, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, 2012, Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music, 2012, Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 2015, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, 2001, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, 1983, Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, honorary doctor of the Royal College of Music, 1995, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1988, Pour le Mérite, Goethe Medal, 1987, Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition), 1999, Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Conductor), 2001
member of: Academy of Arts of the GDR, Academy of Arts, Berlin, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, German Academy for Language and Literature, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Academy of Fine Arts (Argentina)
notable works: Le marteau sans maître
Wikipedia: in 62 languages

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stated by WikidataWikipediaPierre Boulez
stated by WikidataWikidataQ156193
stated by WikidataVIAF108239968
stated by WikidataGND118514024
stated by WikidataIdRef02674404X
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121468794

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Pierre Boulez: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q156193},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Pierre Boulez: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q156193