Marteau

Marteau (mar-to ') is the French word for hammer, and one of the old French historians says that as a hammer breaks and crushes iron and steel, so Charles broke and crushed the power of his enemies in the battle of Tours.

Famous Men of the Middle Ages Addison B. Poland 1885

"Marteau," said the Emperor sharply, "no more of that.

The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

The music for harp, vibraphone, xylophone, bell-like glockenspiel and cimbalom often possesses the textural delicacy and sound color associated with the music of Mr. Boulez since the premiere in 1955 of "Le Marteau sans Maitre" ( "The Hammer Without a Master"), which brought him to public attention.

Both Challenging and Cool 2009

The brands favored by the hard-core absintheurs, such as the American-made Marteau and the French-made Lucid, are much more potently flavored, and claim to be accurate reproductions of the Belle Époque absinthes that caused all the fuss in the first place.

Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms 2009

Prevents or shorten the duration of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea Bergogre-Berezin, 2000; Elmer, 2001; Marteau et al., 2001.

Protexin - Probiotics. Pets need them, too! Thatsnews 2008

I'll be remiss for skipping this one--it's not often Marteau gets played in its entirety.

More Modernist Music Lisa Hirsch 2008

Prevents or shorten the duration of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea Bergogre-Berezin, 2000; Elmer, 2001; Marteau et al., 2001.

Archive 2008-07-01 Thatsnews 2008

Obviously, as you noted, there is a progression from the piano sonatas to Marteau to Pli selon pli to stuff like Rituel and ...explosante-fixe....

Boulez/Maderna Patrick J. Smith 2007

The stranger is Jean Pierre Marteau, who ran away from his village home at sixteen and went to sea.

The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001

The most recent recording of Le Marteau sans maître, widely considered the signature piece of the post-Second World War era, has never even been reissued on CD, although a forthcoming DGG disc, following a series of new releases tied to Boulez's birthday, should bring it back into circulation sometime in 1996.

Unreconstructed Modernist 1995