Jean-Yves Bosseur (born in Paris, 5 February 1947) is a French
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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and writer.
Bosseur studied composition with
Henri Pousseur
Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist.
Biography
Pousseur was born in Malmedy and studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to ...
and
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...
at the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Cologne Courses for New Music, from 1965 to 1968, at the
Hochschule für Musik Köln
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and received a doctorate in aesthetic philosophy from the
University of Paris
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. He has composed more than 200 works and is most noteworthy for his stage works and chamber music.
Bibliography
* Bosseur, Jean-Yves. 1998. ''Vocabulaire des arts plastiques du XXe siècle''. Paris: Minerve. .
* Bosseur, Jean-Yves. 2013.
Compositeur parmi les peintres'. Collection Musique/Transversales. Sampzon: Editions Delatour France. .
References
External links
The Living Composers Project
1947 births
Living people
French classical composers
French male classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln alumni
Lycée Pasteur (Neuilly-sur-Seine) alumni
Pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen
20th-century French composers
21st-century French composers
20th-century French male musicians
21st-century French male musicians
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