When did Pierre Schaeffer pass away?
19 July 1995
19 August 1995
19 September 1995
19 October 1995
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Pierre Schaeffer died on 19 August 1995 at the age of 81. He was a French composer, musicologist, and theorist who is considered to be one of the pioneers of musique concrète, a form of electronic music that uses recorded sounds from the everyday world.
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