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Mort (1963)

Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry

Album title: Variations pour une porte et un soupir / Voile d'Orphée
Title: Mort (Track 17)
Publisher: Harmonia Mundi, Arles
Date: 1963, publ. 1987
Medium: CD + booklet

 

The French composer and founder of Musique Concrète, Pierre Henry, was regarded as a spiritual man. From the 1960s onwards, his music took on more and more spiritual and meditative features; death repeatedly played a role, as in the piece Mort, heard here. His ballet piece Le Voyage from 1962 was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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