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Pierre Schaeffer

1910 - 1995

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Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: , French pronunciation: [ʃɛfɛʁ]; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime. Schaeffer is most widely and currently recognized for his accomplishments in electronic and experimental music, at the core of which stands his role as the chief developer of a unique and early form of avant-garde music known as musique concrète. The genre emerged in Europe from the utilization of new music technology developed in the post-war era, following the advance of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Schaeffer is the 260th most popular composer (down from 248th in 2019), the 1,142nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,133rd in 2019) and the 45th most popular French Composer.

Pierre Schaeffer is most famous for his work in musique concrète, which is a form of music made by manipulating recordings of natural sounds.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 260 out of 1,451. Before him are Francis Lai, Carl Stamitz, Vincent d'Indy, Alfred Schnittke, James Horner, and Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria. After him are Ion Ivanovici, Antonio Caldara, Francesco Landini, Niels Gade, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and Johann Christoph Bach.

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Among people born in 1910, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 45. Before him are Benzion Netanyahu, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Nathuram Godse, Tjalling Koopmans, Luise Rainer, and António de Spínola. After him are Ne Win, Erich Kempka, Edvard Kardelj, Momofuku Ando, Robert van Gulik, and Francisco Varallo. Among people deceased in 1995, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 45. Before him are Ginger Rogers, Murray Rothbard, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Lita Grey, Jonas Salk, and Louis Malle. After him are Aziz Nesin, Ernest Walton, Don Cherry, Alonzo Church, Miklós Rózsa, and Ștefan Kovács.

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Among people born in France, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 1,142 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Lanzmann (1925), Heinrich Kramer (1430), Hugh of Italy (880), François Cevert (1944), James II of Majorca (1243), and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754). After him are Édouard Vuillard (1868), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Jacques Hébert (1757), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Jacques Rivette (1928), and André-Jacques Garnerin (1769).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 45. Before him are Albert Roussel (1869), Marcel Dupré (1886), Ambroise Thomas (1811), Cécile Chaminade (1857), Francis Lai (1932), and Vincent d'Indy (1851). After him are Jacques Ibert (1890), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), Gustave Charpentier (1860), Georges Auric (1899), and André Campra (1660).

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