Jean-Claude Henry

Jean-Claude Henry (born December 30, 1934 in Paris ) is a French composer.

Henry studied harmony with Henri Challan at the Conservatoire de Paris , counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon , organ and improvisation with Rolande Falcinelli , music analysis with Olivier Messiaen and composition with Tony Aubin . In 1960 he won the First Second Grand Prix de Rome with the Cantate du Printemps . The following year he married the pianist and composer Fanou Cotron .

After his military service he became professor for solfège in 1963 and for counterpoint and fugue in 1967 at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he taught until 2000. From 1957 he was organist at the church of St-Nicolas-St-Marc in Ville-d'Avray near Versailles. In 1959 he was the winner of the International Organ Competition in Munich. In 1970 he succeeded Raffi Ourgandjian as organist of the great organ at the Saint-Pierre church in Neuilly-sur-Seine , where musicians such as Henri Letocart , René Meugé and Xavier Darasse had worked.

After the early death of his wife in 1975, he gave the position to Loïc Mallié . A large part of his compositional work was created in the following years. In 1996 he married a former student, the composer and organist Rikako Watanabe .

Works

• Benthos for organ
• Toccata for organ
• Voies Intérieures for cello and piano
• Prelude for organ
• Stances
• Iorti for violin, cello and piano
• Reflet froid for oboe and piano
• Etiouse for percussion solo
• Souffles for violin, viola, cello, flute (bass) clarinet and piano
• Traces for piano
• Anche, archet, marteaux, "conte pour un trio" for tenor saxophone, violin and piano
• Trois Preludes ... et une petite canzone pour orgue
• Fontaines obscures for violin and piano
• Six courtes études for organ