Schaeffer, Pierre, 1910-1995

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Name (Hebrew)
שפר, פייר, 1910-1995
Name (Latin)
Schaeffer, Pierre, 1910-1995
Other forms of name
Schaeffer, Pierre, 1910-
Date of birth
1910-08-14
Date of death
1995-08-19
Field of activity
Literature
Music
Occupation
Authors
Composers
Music teachers
Music theorists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 112592291
Wikidata: Q315744
Library of congress: n 81003306
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Wikipedia description:

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. The genre emerged in Europe from the utilization of new music technology developed in the post-war era, following the advance of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. Schaeffer's writings (which include written and radio-narrated essays, biographies, short novels, a number of musical treatises and several plays) are often oriented towards his development of the genre, as well as the theoretics and philosophy of music in general. Today, Schaeffer is considered one of the most influential experimental, electroacoustic and subsequently electronic musicians, having been the first composer to utilize a number of contemporary recording and sampling techniques that are now used worldwide by nearly all record production companies. His collaborative endeavors are considered milestones in the histories of electronic and experimental music.

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