R. Murray Schafer Musical artist

Raymond Murray Schafer, CC (born 18 July 1933) is 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 notably the first recipient of the Jules Léger Prize in 1978.

Personal facts

R. Murray Schafer
Birth dateJuly 18, 1933
Birth place
Ontario , Sarnia , Canada

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Musical artist

BackgroundNon performing personnel
genre
Musical theatre
Opera
Contemporary classical music
Avant-garde
instrument
Piano

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R. Murray Schafer on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://artsalive.ca/collections/nacmusicbox/en/index.php?pageid=bios/schafer
  2. http://composers21.com/compdocs/schaferm.htm
  3. http://sunsite.queensu.ca/memorypalace/parlour/Schafer01
  4. http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37315/showcase
  5. http://www.nac-cna.ca/en/whatson/results.cfm?EventID=5091
  6. http://www.nfb.ca/film/listen
  7. http://www.patria.org/arcana/index.html
  8. http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html
  9. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc
  10. http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=687