Jean-Yves Bosseur is a French

France

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and writer

Writer

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Bosseur studied composition with Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur was a Belgian composer.-Biography: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...

 and Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen 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. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

 at the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Cologne Courses for New Music, from 1965 to 1968, at the Hochschule für Musik Köln

Hochschule für Musik Köln

The Cologne University of Music is a music college in Cologne, and Germany's largest academy of music.-History:The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln...

 (Stockhausen 1970, 199–209), and received a doctorate in aesthetic philosophy from the University of Paris

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.

He is research director at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg and Professor of Composition at the Conservatory of Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

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Sources

Stockhausen, Karlheinz. 1971. "Kölner Kursen für Neue Musik", in his Texte zur Musik 3, edited by Dieter Schnebel, 196–211. Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg.

External links

• Living Composers Project: http://composers21.com/compdocs/bosseurj.htm