Henri Busser

Henri Büsser (January 16, 1872 – December 31, 1973) was a French classical music composer and conductor. Henri-Paul Büsser was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. The musical secretary to Charles Gounod, he was an 1893 winner of the Prix de Rome for music. As a conductor, Büsser assisted composer Claude Debussy and, during the last two decades of Jules Massenet's life, was one of Massenet's closest protégés. His noted students include the Japanese composer Tomojiro Ikenouchi (1906-1991).