R. Murray Schafer
Canadian composer (1933-2021) · Canada · On the map · Musicians · Died at 88
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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2021Died14 August 20212012Fumio Koizumi Prize for EthnomusicologyAward1996Honorary Doctor of the University of Strasbourg-IIAward1993Molson PrizeAward1933Born18 July 1933
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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)
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About this person
Country
Canada
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1933 to 2021 · aged 88
Where to find them
The same award as R. Murray Schafer
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Oscar PetersonBoth received Glenn Gould Prize
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