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Pierre Schaeffer
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French composer and musicologist (1910-1995)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1910
- Died
- 1995
- Works
- 33
Top works
- De l'expérience musicale à l'expérience humaine
- Experiences musicales; musiques concrète, electronique, exotique, par le Groupe de recherches musicales de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision française, sous la direction de Pierre Schaeffer, avec la collaboration de François Mâche
- Expériences, Paris, juin 1959
- A la recherche d'une musique concrète
- Vers une musique expérimentale
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Film & TV
Sound · Nancy, France
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (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…
Known for
- La Voix — Voice2023
- Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World — Self - Composer (archive footage)2022
- The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox — Self (archive footage)2022
- The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse — Self1966
- Love at Twenty — Himself (segment "Antoine et Colette")1962
- Antoine and Colette — Pierre Schaeffer1962
- Pierre Schaeffer lance un appel aux chercheurs1961
- Discorama — Self1959
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1910
- Active to
- 1995
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 39,617
- Total plays
- 429,032
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Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (August 14, 1910–August 19, 1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. He is generally acknowledged as being the first composer to make music using magnetic tape. Schaeffer was born in Nancy. His parents were both engineers, and at first it seemed that Pierre would also take this as a career. He studied at the École Polytechnique and after a stint as a telecommunications engineer in Strasbourg from 1934, he found a job in 1936 at Radiodi
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?”
- “I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.”
- “I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.'”
- “Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.”
- “Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.”
- “People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer , ( 1910-08-14 ) 14 August 1910, Nancy , Lorraine , France
- Died
- 19 August 1995 (1995-08-19) (aged 85), Aix-en-Provence , Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- Occupations
- Composer, musician, writer, engineer, professor, broadcaster, acoustician, musicologist, record producer, inventor, entrepreneur, cultural critic
- Years active
- 1942–1990
- Labels
- GRMC/GRM INA Phonurgia Nova, Philips Disques Adès EMF Prospective 21e Siècle
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Pierre Schaeffer
- date of birth
- 1910-08-14
- date of death
- 1995-08-19
- name in native language
- Pierre Schaeffer
- birth name
- Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer
- start of work period
- 1942-00-00
- end of work period
- 1990-00-00
Sources (10)
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Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Pierre Schaeffer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: /piːˈɛər ˈhɛnriː məˈriː ˈʃeɪfər/ , 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.