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R. Murray Schafer

1933 - 2021

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Raymond Murray Schafer (18 July 1933 – 14 August 2021) was a Canadian composer, writer, music educator, and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977). He was the first recipient of the Jules Léger Prize in 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. R. Murray Schafer is the 1,026th most popular composer (down from 955th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Canada (down from 236th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, R. Murray Schafer ranks 1,026 out of 1,451. Before him are Sándor Végh, Alberto Franchetti, Gustav Lange, Edvard Mirzoyan, Philippe Sarde, and Alessandro Grandi. After him are Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., Kevin MacLeod, Ruperto Chapí, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Sergei Vasilenko, and Marcos Portugal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, R. Murray Schafer ranks 286. Before him are Zelda Rubinstein, Bat Ye'or, Imre Nagy, Yoshi Oyakawa, Valéria Gyenge, and Mildred McDaniel. After him are Yang Chuan-kwang, José Faria, Helmuth Rilling, Mark Damon, Helmut Senekowitsch, and Sergio Pitol. Among people deceased in 2021, R. Murray Schafer ranks 307. Before him are Cristóbal Halffter, Peter Swan, Tormod Knutsen, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jaime Lerner, and Medea Abrahamyan. After him are Agustín Balbuena, Pat Martino, Andrej Hoteev, Martí Vergés, Chuck Close, and Dragan Pantelić.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, R. Murray Schafer ranks 312 out of 1,622. Before him are Deborah Kara Unger (1966), Tommy Chong (1938), David Card (1956), Guy Laliberté (1959), Marc Singer (1948), and Alexandra Stewart (1939). After him are Bobby Orr (1948), Yassine Bounou (1991), Ann Rutherford (1917), Jason Priestley (1969), Anne Hébert (1916), and Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661).

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Among COMPOSERS In Canada

Among composers born in Canada, R. Murray Schafer ranks 2. Before him are Howard Shore (1946). After him are Percy Faith (1908), Mychael Danna (1958), Claude Vivier (1948), Christophe Beck (1972), Erik Mongrain (1980), and Venetian Snares (1975).

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