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French
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Jacqueline Schaeffer
Children
1 child: Justine Schaeffer
Education
Lycee Notre-Dame Saint-Sigisbert, Supélec, École polytechnique
Zodiac Sign
♌ Leo
Chinese Zodiac
狗 Dog
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Pierre Schaeffer: French composer and musicologist (1910-1995).
Born in Nancy (died at age 85).
2 awards including Prix Sainte-Beuve.
Pierre Schaeffer has 1 credits in our database.
Studied at Lycee Notre-Dame Saint-Sigisbert.
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Biography
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer 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.
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Pierre Schaeffer was born in Nancy.
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Pierre Schaeffer has 1 credits in our database. Notable titles include Love at Twenty (1962).
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