Pierre Schaeffer | |
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Born | Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer August 14, 1910 Nancy, Lorraine, France |
Died | August 19, 1995 (aged 85) Aix, Provence, France |
Occupation | Composer, musician, writer, engineer, professor, broadcaster, acoustician, musicologist, activist, record producer, inventor, entrepreneur, cultural critic |
Nationality | French |
Ethnicity | White/caucasian |
Citizenship | France |
Genre | Short story, essay/treatise, christian novel, plays, nonfiction novel, columns, journals/memoirs |
Subject | Music theory, musical criticism, musical philosophy, cultural criticism, acoustics, music technology, semiotics, communications, science |
Notable works | In Search of a Concrete Music |
Spouse | Elisabeth Schmitt |
Children | Marie-Claire Schaeffer |
Website | |
pierreschaeffer |
The bibliography of Pierre Schaeffer is a list of the fictional and nonfictional writings of the electroacoustic musician-theoretician and pioneer of musique concrète, Pierre Schaeffer.
* An expanded version published by Richard-Masse later in 1957, based upon the article of the same name. (See "Towards an Experimental Music" below, under heading "Articles and essays".)
* An article published 1957, later that year expanded into a book of the same name. (See "Towards an Experimental Music: Under the Direction of Pierre Schaeffer" above, under heading "Non-fiction".)