Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry, born in 1927, was the first traditionally trained composer to join Pierre Schaeffer in the adventure of "musique concrète" (lit. concrete music) in 1949. He became one of the most renowned composers of his time and the leading creator of electroacoustic music, a new form of expression that he cultivated and celebrated more than any other. Whether great or familiar, sensual or mystical, his music directly appeals to a wide audience, beyond cultural barriers. He has also created a "sound" as individual and recognisable as that of the most famous jazz musicians and imposed a universe of cosmic proportions, a world where the archaic and mythical rub elbows with the familiar, and which sings of the wonders, hopes and fears of our time.

Chronology of works