Pierre Schaeffer

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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 Radiodiffusion Française (RDF) in Paris. It was there that he began to experiment with recorded sounds, convincing the radio station's management to let him use their equipment. He tried playing sounds backwards, slowing them down, speeding them up and juxtaposing them with other sounds, all techniques which were virtually unknown at that time. His first completed piece as a result of these experiments was the Étude aux chemins de fer (1948) which was made from recordings of trains. By that time, Schaeffer had founded the Jeune France group, which had interests in theatre and visual art as well as music. In 1942, he co-founded the Studio d'Essai (later known as the Club d'Essai), which played a role in the activities of the French resistance during World War II, and became a centre of musical activity afterwards. In 1949, Schaeffer met Pierre Henry, and the two founded the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC) which received official recognition from RTF (Radiodiffusion Télévision

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L'oeuvre Musicale (disc 2)

Early Gurus Of Electronics

L'œuvre Musicale

cinq etudes de bruits

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L`oeuvre Musicale Integrale

Premier panorama de musique concrète (Mono Version)

An Anthology Of Noise And Electronic Music Vol,1

Forbidden Planets - Music From the Pioneers of Electronic Sound

L'oeuvre Musicale (Disk 2)

L'oeuvre Musicale

L'oeuvre Musicale (Disc 1)

An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (1)

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