Boulez is a musical theorist and composer of international importance. But in France his approach, once revolutionary, has ossified into a kind of state approved mainstream. Works by more conventional composers go for the most part unheard.

• 布列是位有国际影响的音乐理论家和作曲家，但是在法国，他的探索，虽一度是革命性的，也渐渐僵化到国家认可的主流之中去了。较为庸常的作曲家的作品就大都默默无闻了。