See also: Henry

Pierre Henry is a Compositeur French born the December 9th 1927 with Paris.

Pierre Henry is regarded as the “father” (with Pierre Schaeffer) of the Musique electroacoustic (including/understanding the Concrete music, the acousmatic Musique, and the Electronic music).

It enters to the Academy of Paris in 1937 to make there studies of percussions and writing. There, it follows the teaching of Nadia Boulanger, Felix Passeronne and Olivier Messiaen.

In 1949, it meets Pierre Schaeffer in the studios of the Radio and French Télévision (rtf) (Schaeffer sought a percussionnist for its first “philosopher's stone”, the Symphonie for a man alone ). A great friendship will be born from this meeting. Pierre Henry will be engaged in the studios of the rtf of which it will leave the buildings to create the first Home independent studio in France, APSOME (subsidized by the State). Then, it will create a second studio of music research, Son/Ré.

Its most known work of the general public is Messe for Time Present (which he Co-wrote with Michel Colombier) including/understanding the tube Psyché Rock. The Messe for Time Present is an order of Maurice Béjart which it has choreography and whose first took place with the festival of Avignon in 1967.

It created outstanding acousmatic works as Voyage (according to the book of dead the Tibetan), the Messe of Liverpool , the Apocalypse of Jean , the Fragments for Artaud , or the Tower of Babel .

In 1997, for the seventy years of the type-setter, of the DJ and groups like Fatboy Slim, Saint Germain made a Remix this part.

Works

• Symphony for a man alone (1949-50) (of Pierre Schaeffer in collaboration with Pierre Henry, chorégraphiée by Maurice Béjart in 1955).
• Concerto of ambiguities (1950)
• Orphée (1951-53), experimental opera (of Pierre Schaeffer in collaboration with Pierre Henry which will be choreography by Maurice Béjart)
• Microphone moderate good (1950-52)
• Musique without title (1951)
• Spatiodynamisme (1954)
• the Green Queen (1954), ballet of Maurice Béjart.
• Spiral (1955)
• High voltage (1956), ballet of Maurice Béjart).
• Coexistence (1958)
• Investigations (1959), ballet of Maurice Béjart.
• Entity (1959)
• the black one to sixty (1961)
• the Voyage, according to the Book of dead the Tibetan (1962).
• Variations for a door and a sigh (1963), ballet.
• Mass for time present (1967) (in collaboration with Michel Dovecote), order of Maurice Béjart.
• Mass of Liverpool (1967-70).
• Apocalypse of Jean (1968).
• Ceremony (1969) (in collaboration with Spooky Tooth, group of music English)
• Fragments for Artaud (1970)
• Rally (1970)
• Machine-Dance (1973)
• 2^e symphony for 16 groups of loudspeakers (1972).
• Prism (1973)
• Futuristie I, “musical production electroacoustic” (1975).
• God , according to Victor Hugo, (1977)
• Tenth symphony , homage to Beethoven (1979).
• chymic Weddings, fairy-like ritual in 12 days (1980).
• considered Stones according to Roger Caillois (1982)
• the Tenth Symphony De Beethoven (1986)
• the Egyptian Book of deaths (1986-88, Paris, Museum of Louvre, 1990).
• Interior/External (1997)
• a tower of Babel (1998)
• Remix of the Tenth Symphony (1998)
• large mix concerted appearances, Modern Comfort, 2000
• Dracula (2003), (work based on the Tetralogy of Richard Wagner).
• Labyrinth! Sound Forwarding In Ten Sequences (2003)
• Initiatory Voyage (2005)
• sound Advertisements of the Tram of Mulhouse (2006)
• Two rings , with the voice of Laure Limongi (2006)
• Objective Ground (2007)

External bonds

• Pierre Henry & Michel Dovecote - Mass for time present (1967)
• Biography of the IRCAM