1910 - 1995
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Schaeffer has received more than 412,998 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Schaeffer is the 230th most popular composer (down from 215th in 2019), the 1,084th most popular biography from France (down from 981st in 2019) and the 38th 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, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 230 out of 1,216. Before him are Alfred Schnittke, Anton Reicha, Lili Boulanger, Riccardo Broschi, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Franz Xaver Süssmayr. After him are Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Engelbert Humperdinck, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Otto Nicolai, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, and Niels Gade.
1934 - 1998
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 224
1770 - 1836
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 225
1893 - 1918
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 226
1698 - 1756
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 227
1871 - 1942
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 228
1766 - 1803
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 229
1910 - 1995
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 230
1897 - 1957
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 231
1854 - 1921
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 232
1885 - 1948
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 233
1810 - 1849
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 234
1724 - 1780
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 235
1817 - 1890
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 236
Among people born in 1910, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 38. Before him are Jean Anouilh, August Landmesser, Jean-Louis Barrault, Erich Kempka, Paul Flory, and Robert van Gulik. After him are Joseph Kasa-Vubu, António de Spínola, Michel Aflaq, Ne Win, Galina Ulanova, and Meša Selimović. Among people deceased in 1995, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 40. Before him are Murray Rothbard, Souphanouvong, Siad Barre, Jeremy Brett, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Aziz Nesin. After him are Peter Townsend, Roger Zelazny, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Rory Gallagher, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Ernest Gellner.
1910 - 1987
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 32
1910 - 1944
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 33
1910 - 1994
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 34
1910 - 1975
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 35
1910 - 1985
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 36
1910 - 1967
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 37
1910 - 1995
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 38
1910 - 1969
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 39
1910 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 40
1910 - 1989
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 41
1910 - 2002
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 42
1910 - 1998
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 43
1910 - 1982
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 44
1926 - 1995
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 34
1909 - 1995
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 35
1919 - 1995
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 36
1933 - 1995
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 37
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 38
1915 - 1995
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 39
1910 - 1995
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 40
1914 - 1995
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 41
1937 - 1995
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 42
1920 - 1995
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 43
1948 - 1995
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 44
1933 - 1995
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 45
1925 - 1995
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 46
Among people born in France, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 1,084 out of 6,011. Before him are André Bazin (1918), Jean Gerson (1363), Alice Prin (1901), Jeanne Baret (1740), Henry II, Count of Champagne (1166), and Rosa Bonheur (1822). After him are Charles Trenet (1913), Émile Bernard (1868), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Bruno Cremer (1929), Jules Renard (1864), and Agnes of Poitou (1025).
1918 - 1958
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 1,078
1363 - 1429
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 1,079
1901 - 1953
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 1,080
1740 - 1807
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 1,081
1166 - 1197
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 1,082
1822 - 1899
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 1,083
1910 - 1995
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 1,084
1913 - 2001
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 1,085
1868 - 1941
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 1,086
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 1,087
1929 - 2010
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 1,088
1864 - 1910
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 1,089
1025 - 1077
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 1,090
Among composers born in France, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 38. Before him are Philippe de Vitry (1291), Francis Lai (1932), Ernest Chausson (1855), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), Ambroise Thomas (1811), and Lili Boulanger (1893). After him are Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Fromental Halévy (1799), Albert Roussel (1869), Jacques Ibert (1890), Jaufre Rudel (1125), and Clément Janequin (1485).
1291 - 1361
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 32
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 33
1855 - 1899
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 34
1844 - 1937
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 35
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 36
1893 - 1918
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 37
1910 - 1995
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 38
1841 - 1894
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 39
1799 - 1862
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 40
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 41
1890 - 1962
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 42
1125 - 1148
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 43
1485 - 1558
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 44