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Works  Works of Henri Pousseur  Composers  Désiré Pâque  Louis Lavoye  Albert Dupuis  Jean Rogister  Mathieu Jodin  Lucien Lambotte  Georges Antoine  Mathieu Debaar  Paul Rouault  Maurice Guillaume  Raymond Micha  Michel Leclerc  Pierre Froidebise  Berthe di Vito-Delvaux  Edouard Senny    Paul Barras  Henri Pousseur  Paul Sana  André Jadot  Roger Cornelis  Claude Siquiet  Albert Lomba  Pierre Matot  Firmin Decerf Marian Mitea  Alain Levecq  Leonello Capodaglio PhilippeVerkaeren   Michel Béro  Jean-Dominique Pasquet  Dominique Charle  Jean-Louis Cadée  Onofrio Palumbo  Thierry Chleide  André Giet André Klenes  Anne Martin Jeannine Gillard  Marcel Cominotto  Paul Detiffe  Jean-Luc Lepage  Pierre Liémans  Patrick Wilwerth  Jean Nadeau Michel Fourgon  Philippe de Val Laurence Jacquemin  Sébastien Letocart		Henri POUSSEUR (Malmedy 1929)
		Henri Pousseur was born in Malmédy on June 23,1929. He studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels and he associated essentially with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris while participating in their discovery of the Viennese School. Subsequently, he encountered Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and devoted himself to avant-garde research. He attended the summer courses in Darmstadt, the Contemporary Music Festival in Donaueschingen and he worked at the electronic music studios in Köln and in Milano. He was a teacher of composition at the Music Academy in Basel. In 1970, he created in Liège the Centre for Musical Research of Wallonia. He was appointed as Director of the Academy of Music in Liège in 1975 and he remained in office until 1988. In 1984, he was appointed as Director of the Institute of Pedagogy at the Music Academy in Paris. As the spiritual heir of Webern, Henri Pousseur endeavoured by applying the techniques and the principles of the aleatoric and through combining electronics with traditional instruments - to bring about a renewal of the phenomenon of sound. From among a vast catalogue, we could quote "Symphonie à 15 solistes" (1958), "Les Éphémérides d'Icare" (1970), "Couleurs croisées" (1967) for orchestra as well as the opera "Votre Faust" (1961-68) created in co-operation with the writer Michel Butor. Philippe Bayard Translated by Luc Van Loock