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(b. 18 July 1933, Sarnia, Ontario – d. 14 August 2021, Indian River, Ontario).

Canadian composer of interdisciplinary works that have been performed throughout the world; he was also active as a writer.

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Schafer initially studied harpsichord, music theory and piano at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto from 1945–55.

Schafer was one of Canada's most influential avant-garde composers.

Schafer was one of Canada's most influential avant-garde composers.

Murray Schafer is one of Canada's few composers to have achieved an international reputation.

[Tuning of the World] The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world / R. Murray Schafer.

This article considers air as a medium and explores the analogy between inside and outside in the production of vocal sound and in the circulation of sound.

The psychology and physiology of aural pattern perception will supersede many former musical studies in which musical soundings were rendered mute by paper.

He then briefly studied composition with John Weinzweig, harpsichord with Greta Kraus and piano with Alberto Guerrero at the University of Toronto in 1954–55, from where he was expelled for insubordination. He obtained a piano degree from the Royal College of Music in London while still in Canada.

He later taught himself journalism, languages, literature, music, and philosophy in Vienna and London from 1956–61, on a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. He received six honorary doctorates from universities in Argentina, Canada and France.

Among his honours were two prizes from the Fromm Foundation (1968, 1972), the Canadian Mus