Henri Pousseur - Selected Compositions

Selected Compositions

• Sept Versets des Psaumes de la Pénitence for four vocal soloists or mixed choir (1950)
• Trois Chants sacrés for soprano and string trio (1951)
• Prospection for three pianos tuned in sixths of a tone (1952–53)
• Séismogrammes electronic music (1954)
• Symphonies à 15 Solistes (1954–55)
• Quintette à la memoire d'Anton Webern for clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1955)
• Scambi electronic music (1957)
• Mobile for two pianos (1957–58)
• Rimes pour différentes sources sonores for orchestra and tape (1958)
• Madrigal I for clarinet (1958)
• Madrigal II for 4 early instruments (flute, violin, viola da gamba, harpsichord) (1961)
• Madrigal III for clarinet, violin, cello, 2 percussionists, and piano (1962)
• Ode for string quartet (1960–61)
• Trois Visages de Liège electronic music (1961)
• Caractères for piano (1961)
• Votre Faust (1961–68), opera for five actors, four singers, thirteen instruments, and electronic music, libretto by Michel Butor. Several "satellite" works are related to this opera:
  • Miroir de Votre Faust (Caractères II) for solo piano and (optional) soprano (1964–65),
  • Jeu de Miroirs de Votre Faust for piano, soprano and tape (1964–65)
  • Echos de Votre Faust for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello, and piano (1961–69),
  • Les Ruines de Jéruzona for mixed choir and "rhythm section" (1978),
  • La Passion selon Guignol for amplified vocal quartet and orchestra (1981),
  • Parade de Votre Faust for orchestra (1974)
  • Aiguillages au carrefour des immortels for 16 or 17 instruments (2002)
  • Il sogno di Leporello: Parade 2 (de Votre Faust) for orchestra (2005)
• Apostrophe et six Réflexions for piano (1964–66)
• Phonèmes pour Cathy for mezzo-soprano solo (1966)
• Couleurs croisées for large orchestra (1967)
• Mnémosyne monody solo voice or instrument, or unison choir (1968)
• Mnémosyne II for variable media (1969)
• Les Éphémérides d'Icare 2 for a soloist, three-part concertino, and four instrumental quartets (1970)
• Crosses of Crossed Colors for vocal soloist, two to five pianos, six tape-recorder operators, two turntablists, and two radio operators (1970)
• Paraboles-Mix electronic music (1972)
• Vue sur les Jardins interdits for saxophone quartet (1973)
• Die Erprobung des Petrus Hebraïcus chamber opera in three acts, libretto by Léo Wintgens after Michel Butor (1974). Several "satellite" works are related to this opera:
• Chroniques berlinoises for piano and string quartet with baritone ad lib. (1975)
• Chroniques illustrées for large orchestra with baritone ad lib. (1976)
• Ballade berlinoise for piano solo (1977)
• Humeurs du Futur quotidien for two reciters and chamber orchestra (1978)
• Pédigrée for female voice and seven instruments (1980)
• Canines for voice and piano (1980)
• Flexions IV for viola solo (1980)
• Chroniques canines for two pianos with soprano ad lib (1984)
• Tales and Songs from the Bible of Hell four singers with real-time electronic transformation and pre-recorded 4 track tape (1979)
• La Passion selon Guignol for amplified vocal quartet and orchestra (1981)
• La Paganania for solo violin (1982)
• La Paganania seconda for solo cello (1982)
• Déclarations d'Orage for reciter, soprano, baritone, three improvising instruments (alto saxophone, tuba, synthesizer), large orchestra and tape (1988–89)
• At Moonlight, Dowland's Shadow passes along Ginkaku-Ji for shakuhachi, shamisen, and koto (1989)
• Leçons d'Enfer music theatre for 2 actors, 3 singers, 7 instruments, tape, and live electronics; texts by Arthur Rimbaud and Michel Butor (1990–91)
• Dichterliebesreigentraum for soprano, baritone, two solo pianos, choir and orchestra (1992–93)
• Aquarius-Mémorial (in memoriam Karel Goeyvaerts)
  • I. Les Litanies d'Icare for piano (1994)
  • II. Danseurs Gnidiens cherchant la Perle clémentine for chamber orchestra (1998)
  • III. Les Fouilles de Jéruzona for orchestra (1995)
  • IV. Icare au Jardin du Verseau for piano and chamber orchestra (1999)
• La Guirlande de Pierre for soprano, baritone and piano (1997)
• Navigations for harp (2000)
• Seize Paysages planétaires ethno-electroacoustical music (2000)
• Les Icare africains for solo voices, ad lib. choir, and orchestra (2002)