Henri Büsser

Paul Henri Büsser (16 January 1872 – 30 December 1973) was a French classical composer, organist, conductor and teacher.

In addition to his own compositions Büsser edited and orchestrated a wide range of music – mostly but not exclusively French – dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

He was the son of an organist, Fritz Büsser (1846–1879), and sang as a boy in the choir of Toulouse Cathedral under Aloÿs Kunc [fr] before entering the École Niedermeyer de Paris in 1885 to study with Alexandre Georges.

[1] He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1889, studying organ with César Franck and composition with Ernest Guiraud, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet.

[1] In the 1950s he edited the music of Les Indes galantes by Rameau, and Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber, described by The New York Times as two of the major stagings at the Paris Opéra in the postwar years.