Pierre Schaeffer

✶August 9, 1910

†August 19, 1995

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About their life

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer 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.

French musicologist (1910–1995)

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Biography from the article Pierre Schaeffer on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.