Jean-Yves Bosseur
Jean-Yves Bosseur (born in Paris, 5 February 1947) is a French composer and writer. Bosseur studied composition with Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Cologne Courses for New Music, from 1965 to 1968, at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and received a doctorate in aesthetic philosophy from the University of Paris. He has composed more than 200 works and is most noteworthy for his stage works and chamber music.
Jean-Yves Bosseur
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- Full name
- Yves Jean Marie Roger Bosseur.
- Born
- 1947. · 15th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- composer, musicologist, writer and graphic artist.
- Movements
- classical music.
- Education
- Lycée Pasteur and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean-Yves Bosseur appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a composer, philosopher and musicologist (born 5 February 1947).
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Jean-Yves Bosseur was born on 5 February 1947 in Paris.
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Jean-Yves Bosseur studied at Lycée Pasteur and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with National Center for Scientific Research.
lors d'un concert à Reims.
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lors d'un concert à Reims.
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- 1.Stockhausen, Karlhein. Texte zur Musik. M. DuMont Schauberg. 3: 1963–1970. 199–209. 1971.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- 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. .
- Bosseur, Jean-Yves. 2025. Zad Moultaka : Strates et palimpsestes. Collection Musiques/ Transversales. Editions Delatour France.
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