
Pierre Henry
Known for
Music and sound
Born
December 9, 1927
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
July 5, 2017 (aged 89)
Biography
Pierre Georges Albert François Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer and pioneer of musique concrète.
Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music, now called noise music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1938 to 1948.
Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1943. During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece Symphonie pour un homme seul, in cooperation with Schaeffer. It is an important early...
Best known work
Filmography
2007
Pierre Henry: The Art of Soundsas Himself
2006
1972
1971
Law BreakersOriginal Music Composer
1971
1971
1968
Le candidatMusic
1968
GiragliaSound
1967
Marie et le CuréOriginal Music Composer
1967
Soy leyendaMusic
1967
1965
Opus 007Music
1963
Run!Music
1962
Where the Truth LiesMusic
1959
O PátioOriginal Music Composer
1957
Symphony for One Man AloneConductor
1953









