Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Polyphonie X is a composition by Pierre Boulez for eighteen instruments divided into seven groups written in 1950–51. It is in three movements.It is one of the first works of Boulez’s total serial period. It was composed shortly after Structure 1a the opening of the piano duo Structures I (Heyworth 1973 p. 14; Jameux 1991 p. 52) the movement the composer would later describe as an experiment with an expressive nadir (Jameux 1991 p. 51).