A Belgian composer born in 1929 in Malmedy (Belgium) who died in 2009 in Bruxelles.
Henri Pousseur studied at the conservatories of Liège and Brussels (1947-1953) where he met Pierre Froidebise and André Souris. From 1951 he was actively taking part, with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio, in the development of serialism, electronic and aleatory music, and was teaching at Darmstadt. He worked at the electronic music studios of Cologne (1954), Milan (Scambi, 1957) and in 1958 founded that of Brussels as well as the association Musiques Nouvelles. 1960 saw the start of his collaboration with Michel Butor, notably in Votre Faust (1961-1968), Liège à Paris (1977), Procès du jeune chien (1978), Chevelures du temps (1979), La rose des voix (1982), Le sablier du Phoenix (1994), L'antre de la nymphe (2006). He founded the Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie (1970), set up the Institut de Pédagogie Musicale et Chorégraphique in Paris (1984-1987) within which he created the journal Marsyas. In addition to many writings, he composed some two hundred works that include Mobile (1958), Ode (1960), Miroir de votre Faust (1965), Couleurs croisées (1967), Icare apprenti (1970), Vue sur les jardins interdits (1973), La seconde apothéose de Rameau (1981), Nacht der Nächte (1985), Voix et vues planétaires (2004).
