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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. 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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In France

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).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

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).

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