Pierre henry branded biography

Pierre Henry was born in Paris on 9 December 1927. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire between 1938–48 with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. As he explained to Rahma Khazam in The Wire 160, these early years saw his introduction to the concepts he would later use in his music. “I used to play in an orchestra, and I was struck by the fact that depending on where you were placed, you would hear the prolific composer of electroacoustic music differently. And if you selected short extracts and listened to them, they took on a completely new meaning, because they were out of context.”

While studying as a percussionist under Messiaen, Henry met the musique concrete pioneer Pierre Schaeffer. He had heard Schaeffer's early works and went to meet him at RTF (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française), in the studio founded by Schaeffer some years earlier. Following a collaboration featuring Henry on percussion, the pair started to work together.

Between 1949–58 Henry worked a

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