Pierre Schaeffer
Birthday
1910/08/14
Day of death
1995/08/19 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Nancy, France
Also know as
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Biography
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 anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime. A...Read more
Acting
(1962) Love at Twenty
as Himself (segment "Antoine et Colette")
(1966) The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
as Self
(2022) Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
as Self - Composer (archive footage)
(2022) The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
as Self (archive footage)
(2023) La Voix
as Voice
(1962) Antoine and Colette
as Pierre Schaeffer
(1959) Discorama
as Self