Pierre Schaeffer

Person · Open Library

Born

1910

Died

1995

Works

33

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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

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

39,617

Total plays

429,032

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Going deeper with convolutions

   · 2015 · cited 32,877x

2. Classification of Surgical Complications

   · 2004 · cited 28,241x

3. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,455x

4. Outline of a Theory of Practice

   · 1977 · cited 19,105x

5. 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 15,975x

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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

Instance of

human

Given name

Pierre

Gender

male

Citizenship

France

Place of birth

Nancy

Place of death

Aix-en-Provence

Occupation

musician

Employer

Conservatoire de Paris

Languages spoken

French

Religion

Catholicism

Participant in

documenta 8

Genre

musique concrète

Record label

Groupe de Recherches Musicales

Image

Psconcer.jpg

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