# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-schaeffer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:14:44.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-schaeffer"
name: "Pierre Schaeffer"
slug: "pierre-schaeffer"
description: "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."
tagline: "French composer and musicologist (1910-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre_Schaeffer_(1960)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1910-08-14"
deathDate: "1995-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.79188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1285601/"
    handle:    "nm1285601"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيير شايفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پیر شفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer"
    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer"
    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer"
    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
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    title: "پیر شفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
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    title: "פייר שפר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Պիեռ Շեֆեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ピエール・シェフェール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "피에르 셰페르"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пьер Шеффер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer"
    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer"
    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer"
    title: "Pierre Schaeffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Шеффер, Пьер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cc48f77c-32c5-46e1-9f35-119d61671e1b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315744"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump