# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-murray-schafer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:29.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-murray-schafer"
name: "R. Murray Schafer"
slug: "r-murray-schafer"
description: "Raymond Murray Schafer was a Canadian composer, writer, music educator, and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book, The Tuning of the World (1977). He was the first recipient of the Jules Léger Prize in 1978."
tagline: "Canadian composer (1933–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R._Murray_Schafer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1933-07-18"
deathDate: "2021-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.76303866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2206410"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump