Pierre Schaeffer
French composer and engineer who founded musique concrète and the GRM.
Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995) was a French composer, engineer, and theorist whose experiments with recorded sound gave rise to musique concrète and the listening practice he called reduced listening, and who founded what became the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.
Works in the Library
Pierre Schaeffer ALBUM 1975
Pierre Schaeffer's final work, composed entirely from synthetic sounds — his only purely electronic piece.
Related Groups in the Library
Pierre Schaeffer ORGANIZATION
Paris radio research club, renamed from the Studio d'Essai in 1946, where Pierre Schaeffer began musique concrète.
Pierre Schaeffer ORGANIZATION
Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC)
Pierre Schaeffer's 1951 research group at the Club d'Essai, the direct predecessor of the GRM.
Pierre Schaeffer ORGANIZATION
Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM)
French institution for musique concrète and electroacoustic research.
Pierre Schaeffer, Jacques Copeau ORGANIZATION
Wartime French radio studio founded 1942, ancestor of the GRM lineage.
