Jean-Yves Bosseur (born in Paris, 5 February 1947) is a French

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and writer. Bosseur studied composition with

Henri Pousseur Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (; 23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist. Biography Pousseur was born in Malmedy and studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 19 ...

and

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) 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. He is known for his groun ...

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

Hochschule für Musik Köln ' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right t ...

, and received a doctorate in aesthetic philosophy from the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

. He has composed more than 200 works and is most noteworthy for his stage works and chamber music. In his appreciation to the transversality of Music and art, Bosseur writes about Zad Moultaka in his boo

as a particular artist who is at multiple crossroads: his orientale culture to the western culture, to music and visual arts without systématisme which makes his production profoundly anchored in archetype and myths and adds a sense of sacred to his works.

Bibliography

* 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

Editions Delatour France.

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The Living Composers Project 1947 births Living people French male classical composers 20th-century French classical composers 21st-century French classical composers Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln alumni Lycée Pasteur (Neuilly-sur-Seine) alumni Pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen 20th-century French male musicians 21st-century French male musicians {{France-composer-stub