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.
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![In his memoir, My Life on Earth and Elsewhere, Schafer described serving as a novice deckhand aboard the oil tanker Imperial Windsor in 1955.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Tanker_Windsolite_in_the_Welland_Canal%2C_1938_04_01_-a.jpg/500px-Tanker_Windsolite_in_the_Welland_Canal%2C_1938_04_01_-a.jpg)
Awards 8
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Walter KasperAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Strasbourg-II
Robert LepageAlso won Glenn Gould Prize
Nicole BrossardAlso won Molson Prize
Ian TysonAlso won Governor General's Performing Arts Award
Conlon NancarrowAlso won Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music
Michel BraultAlso won Governor General's Performing Arts AwardAbout this person
Country
CanadaCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1933 to 2021 · aged 88
Written about in
15 languages
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