The Swiss composer Pierre Mariétan died yesterday in his 90th year.
A former associate of Boulez and Stockhausen, he leaves 300 instrumental, orchestral, vocal and electro-acoustic works.
His pièce de résistance is Paysmusique (1991), which combines 96 voices speaking in different Swiss dialects.
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