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Henri Pousseur (born 23 June 1929, Malmedy, died 6 March 2009) was a Belgian composer. Pousseur studied at the
Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André
Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and thereafter devoted himself to avant-
garde research.
Beginning around 1960, he collaborated with Michel Butor on a number of projects, most notably the opera Votre Faust
(1961–68).
Pousseur has taught in Cologne, Basel, and in the United States at SUNY Buffalo, as well ...read more
Henri Pousseur (born 23 June 1929, Malmedy, died 6 March 2009) was a Belgian composer. Pousseur studied at the
Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André
Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and thereafter devoted himself to avant-
garde research.
Beginning around 1960, he collaborated with Michel Butor on a number of projects, most notably the opera Votre Faust
(1961–68).
Pousseur has taught in Cologne, Basel, and in the United States at SUNY Buffalo, as well as in his native Belgium. From 1970
until his retirement in 1988 he taught at the University and Conservatory of Liège where he also founded the Centre de
recherches et de formation musicales de Wallonie.
Generally regarded as a member of the Darmstadt School in the 1950s, Pousseur’s music employs serialism, mobile forms,
and aleatory, often mediating between or among seemingly irreconcilable styles, such as those of Schubert and Webern
(Votre Faust), or Pousseur’s own serial style and the protest song “We shall overcome” (Couleurs croisées).
His electronic composition Scambi (Exchanges), realized at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan in 1957, is unusual in the tape-
music medium because it is explicitly meant to be assembled in different ways before listening.
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