Pierre Schaeffer
Sign in to saveFrench 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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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 39,617
- Total plays
- 429,032
Tags
musique concreteAvant-Gardeexperimentalcontemporary classicalelectronic
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
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,459x
- Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 27,676x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 21,841x
- Outline of a Theory of Practice
· 1977 · cited 18,742x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
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Key dates
- Born
- 14 August 1910
- Died
- 19 August 1995
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nancy
- Place of death
- Aix-en-Provence
- Occupation
- audio engineer
- Employer
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Catholicism
Connections
Categories
1910 births1995 deaths20th-century French classical composers20th-century French engineers20th-century French inventors20th-century French male composers20th-century French musicologists20th-century French writersAcademic staff of the Conservatoire de ParisAvant-garde composersÉcole polytechnique alumniElectroacoustic music composers