Summary of Music Revolutionaries - Pierre Schaeffer

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Pierre Schaeffer was a music pioneer who invented musique concrète, a form of music made up of sounds from various sources. His work was initially met with criticism, but is now recognized as a mainstream form of music.

• 00:00:00 Pierre Schaeffer was a pioneer of music recording technology, and his work in the late 1940s led to a revolution in how we listen to and make music. His compositions, often made up of sounds from various sources, are not based on any particular source or context, and are instead about the sounds themselves.
• 00:05:00 Pierre Schaeffer is credited with initiating a music revolution with his invention of musique concrète. His work was met with criticism at first, but has since been recognized as a mainstream form of music.