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Pierre Boulez (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music He played an important role in the development of integral serialism in the 1950s, controlled chance music in the 1960s and the electronic transformation of instrumental music in real time from the 1970s. Boulez was music director of the New York Philharmonic, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestras. He also made frequent appearances with other orchestras. He was known for his performances of the music of the first half of the twentieth century and that of his contemporaries. He set up the Domaine musical in Paris, and later established the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique and the Ensemble intercontemporain. Later he co-founded the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland.