Pierre Henry Death
Pierre passed away on July 5, 2017 at the age of 89 in Paris, France.
When did Pierre Henry die?
July 5, 2017How old was Pierre Henry when died?
89Where did Pierre Henry die? What was the location of death?
Paris, France
Pierre Henry Birthday and Date of Death
Pierre Henry was born on December 9, 1927 and died on July 5, 2017. Pierre was 89 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: December 9, 1927
Date of Death: July 5, 2017
Age at Death: 89
Pierre Henry - Biography
Pierre Henry was born on December 9, 1927 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Mean Girls (2004), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Altered States (1980). He died on July 5, 2017 in Paris.Trivia (3)Legendary electronic-music pioneer.His 1967 rock experiment "Psyché Rock" is perhaps his best-known piece. Borrowed from a longer ballet score he wrote, it was remixed by Fatboy Slim and formed the basis for Christopher Tyng's theme song for Futurama (1999).He studied with French composer Olivier Messiaen. He established the GRMC (Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète). The group, which translates to "Research Group into Concrete Music," was founded in 1951 with radio professional Pierre Schaeffer. It was a center for experimenting with making tape music in which found sounds and music transferred from turntables and phonographs were manipulated to create new pieces of music. He also established the first private electronic music studio in France in 1960.Pierre Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer, considered a pioneer in the musique concrète genre of electronic music.BiographyPierre 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. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Paris Conservatoire from 1938 to 1948 (Dhomont 2001).Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1943 (Dhomont 2001). During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece Symphonie pour un homme seul, in cooperation with Schaeffer; he also composed the first musique concrète to appear in a commercial film, the 1952 short film Astrologie ou le miroir de la vie. Henry scored numerous additional films and ballets.Two years after leaving the RTF, he founded with Jean Baronnet the first private electronic studio in France, the Apsone-Cabasse Studio (Dhomont 2001).Among Henry's works is the 1967 ballet Messe pour le temps présent (Dhomont 2001), a collaboration with choreographer Maurice Béjart that debuted in Avignon (Rubin 2001,[page needed]). In 1970 Henry collaborated with British rock band Spooky Tooth on the album Ceremony (Rubin 2001, 308).Composer Christopher Tyng was heavily inspired by Henry's "Psyché Rock" when writing the theme to the popular animated cartoon show Futurama. The theme is so reminiscent of the Henry's song, it is considered a variation of the original (Cohen 2001).Henry died on Wednesday 5 July 2017 at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paris, at the age of 89 (Decalf 2017; Dayal 2017; Gervasoni 2017).
