Pierre Henry

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Pierre Henry (born December 9, 1927 in Paris ; † July 5, 2017 there ) was a contemporary French composer . He is considered a pioneer of electronic music and musique concrète .

Life

From the age of 10, from 1937 to 1947, he studied at the Paris Conservatory , a. a. with Nadia Boulanger , Felix Passerone and Olivier Messiaen .

Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the RTF's Club d'Essai studio , which was founded by Pierre Schaeffer . In the years 1949–1950, Henry composed the Symphonie pour un homme seul with Schaeffer . The premiere on March 18, 1950 caused a sensation because Henry, together with Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Poulin, presented a work without a score at the Parisian École Normale de Musique de Paris , which was electronically transmitted using records and consisted only of sound collages. This day is considered to be the birth of Musique concrète .

In 1958, Henry left RTF and founded France's first private electronic studio with Jean Baronnet in 1960 .

Henry has been composing both ballet and film music since 1952. He worked with the choreographers Maurice Béjart and Alwin Nikolais , among others . His most successful work is the fair pour le temps présent from 1967. With Psyché Rock from this fair, he also turned to rock music for the first time; this song was used by Roger Handt in the radio program Radiothek at the end of the seventies as the opening credits for the "Questionmark" series, and an edited version became the title track for the Futurama series from 1999 . In Ceremony from 1969 he worked with the group Spooky Tooth , where he later alienated the recordings of the band.

Pierre Henry not only influenced new music in the second half of the 20th century, but is also one of the "fathers" of techno alongside Karlheinz Stockhausen .

For the 2006 tram in Mulhouse , Henry created individual melodies for the station announcements.

Henry died at the age of 89 on Wednesday July 5, 2017 in Saint Joseph Hospital in Paris.

Works (selection)

Cast list for the world premiere of the staged installation “Kyldex I” in 1973
  • 1950 Symphonie pour un homme seul (together with Pierre Schaeffer)
  • 1951 Le microphone bien temperé
    Musique sans titre
    Concerto des ambiguities with piano
  • 1952 First film music in musique concrete for Jean Grémillon's film Astrologie
  • 1953 Orphée 53 , experimental opera for the Donaueschinger Musiktage , first play in musique concrète (together with Pierre Schaeffer)
  • 1955 Arcane (ballet)
  • 1956 skin voltage (ballet)
  • 1959 Coexistence
    Investigations
  • 1960 La noir a soixante
  • 1962 Le voyage (ballet based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead )
  • 1963 La Reine Verte (ballet)
  • 1967 Messe pour le temps présent (in collaboration with Michel Colombier )
  • 1968 L'apocalypse de Jean (The Apocalypse of John) with spoken text
  • 1969 Ceremony with the rock band Spooky Tooth
  • 1971 Nijinsky , clown de dieu (ballet)
  • 1973 Kyldex I (cybernetic ballet)
  • 1975 Futuriste , in memory of the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo
  • 1979 La Dixième Symphonie , homage to Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 1986 La Dixième Symphonie De Beethoven
  • 1990 Le livre des morts égyptien ( The Egyptian Book of the Dead )
  • 1997 interior / exterior

Filmography (selection)

  • 1962: The House of Sin (Maléfices)
  • 1971: Murderer according to the rules (Les assassins de l'ordre)

Web links

Commons : Pierre Henry  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Gervasoni: Mort de Pierre Henry, compositeur français et père de la musique concrète . Le Monde , July 6, 2017, accessed July 6, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Henry, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 2017
Place of death Paris