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The man behind Pierre Boulez

The man behind Pierre Boulez

I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country.

‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried.

‘It lacks style,’ I said, digging a deeper hole.

Boulez looked pained.

‘But Hans bought it for me. He buys all my clothes.’

Hans Messner was his live-in companion, referred to as ‘my valet’.

VAN magazine has tracked him down, but he won’t say a word about ‘Monsieur.’ Read here.

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