Pierre Schaeffer
Profile info
Known forSound
GenderMale
Birthday14 August 1910
Died19 August 1995 (age 85)
Place of birthNancy, France
Known credits19
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. Amongst the vast range of works and projects he undertook, Schaeffer is most widely and currently rec…

La Voix
2023 · Voice

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
2022 · Self (archive footage)

Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
2022 · Self - Composer (archive footage)

I. You. They.
1973 · Producer

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
1966 · Self
Garabatos
1964 · Music

Run!
1963 · Music

Love at Twenty
1962 · Himself (segment "Antoine et Colette")

Antoine and Colette
1962 · Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer lance un appel aux chercheurs
1961

Etude aux allures
1960 · Music

Animated Objects
1960 · Music

Jours de mes années
1959 · Supervising Music Editor

Discorama
1959 · Self

O Pátio
1959 · Original Music Composer
Symphony for One Man Alone
1957 · Conductor

Leonardo Da Vinci The Tragic Pursuit of Perfection
1953 · Music
Maskerage
1952 · Music
Le trièdre fertile
Director
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