Jacques Lenot

Jacques Lenot (born 1945) is a French composer from Saint-Jean-d'Angély whose writing grew out of serialism, a school he later moved away from. Olivier Messiaen supported him early on, and his first orchestral work was played by the ORTF orchestra at the Royan festival in 1967. He has written for orchestra, ensemble, piano, organ, voice and the stage. Lenot met Stockhausen, Ligeti and Kagel at Darmstadt in 1966, then worked in Italy alongside Sylvano Bussotti in Rome.