COMPOSER

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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. Murray Schafer has received more than 271,518 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. R. Murray Schafer is the 955th most popular composer, the 236th most popular biography from Canada and the 2nd most popular Canadian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, R. Murray Schafer ranks 955 out of 1,451. Before him are Napoléon Henri Reber, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Italo Montemezzi, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Guy Ropartz, and Josip Runjanin. After him are Felix Draeseke, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Juhan Aavik, Alexei Lvov, and Joseph Marx.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, R. Murray Schafer ranks 249. Before him are Elly Ameling, Kadriye Nurmambet, Carlos Correia, Chen Jingrun, Gino Pivatelli, and Bob Rafelson. After him are Nichita Stănescu, Vladimir Melanin, Laura Mancinelli, Carol Burnett, Dom DeLuise, and Nicolae Rainea. Among people deceased in 2021, R. Murray Schafer ranks 267. Before him are Dimitri Kitsikis, Joey Jordison, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Gianluigi Saccaro, Ronald Pickup, and Jan de Vries. After him are Willie Garson, Yıldırım Akbulut, Philippe Jaccottet, Verónica Forqué, Gimax, and Friederike Mayröcker.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, R. Murray Schafer ranks 236 out of 1,622. Before him are William H. McNeill (1917), Mazo de la Roche (1879), Marie Dressler (1868), Colleen Dewhurst (1924), Gaëtan Dugas (1952), and Michael Ontkean (1946). After him are Kim Campbell (1947), David H. Levy (1948), Louise Penny (1958), David Shore (1959), Ann Rutherford (1917), and Allan Dwan (1885).

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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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