COMPOSER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Schaeffer has received more than 435,423 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Pierre Schaeffer is the 248th most popular composer (down from 230th in 2019), the 1,133rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,081st 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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  • 32

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  • 8.22

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 248 out of 1,451. Before him are Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Albert Roussel, Alfred Schnittke, Francesco Durante, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, and Otto Nicolai. After him are Jacques Ibert, Ambroise Thomas, Clemens Krauss, Emmanuel Chabrier, Francesco Geminiani, and Marcel Dupré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 46. Before him are Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Diosdado Macapagal, Edda Mussolini, Paul Flory, Luise Rainer, and Edvard Kardelj. After him are António de Spínola, Ne Win, Momofuku Ando, Erich Kempka, Kim Il, and Said bin Taimur. Among people deceased in 1995, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 42. Before him are Edda Mussolini, Roger Zelazny, Louis Malle, U Nu, Rory Gallagher, and John Vincent Atanasoff. After him are Alonzo Church, Ernest Walton, Lita Grey, Carlos Monzón, Ștefan Kovács, and Siad Barre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 1,133 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Augereau (1757), Étienne Cabet (1788), Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (1145), Pierre Mignard (1612), William X, Duke of Aquitaine (1099), and Lionel Jospin (1937). After him are Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768), Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Jacques Ibert (1890), Pierre Brice (1929), and Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pierre Schaeffer ranks 38. Before him are Philippe de Vitry (1291), Pauline Viardot (1821), Lili Boulanger (1893), Ernest Chausson (1855), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), and Albert Roussel (1869). After him are Jacques Ibert (1890), Ambroise Thomas (1811), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Marcel Dupré (1886), Fromental Halévy (1799), and Georges Auric (1899).

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