# Pierre Schaeffer — Every Record We Rank

Pierre Schaeffer appears once in our Musique Concrète list, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.

- **Ranked entries:** 1
- **Appears on:** Musique Concrète
- **Year:** 1948
- **Highest placing:** No. 1 in Musique Concrète
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/artist/pierre-schaeffer/

## Appears on

### [Étude aux chemins de fer](https://waxonia.com/track/pierre-schaeffer--etude-aux-chemins-de-fer/)

*1948 · No. 1 in [Musique Concrète](https://waxonia.com/genre/musique-concrete/)*

Six locomotives, cut and looped on shellac discs. The first piece of music made entirely from recordings of things, and the founding act of everything sample-based that followed.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Pierre%20Schaeffer%20%C3%89tude%20aux%20chemins%20de%20fer) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ioMr0dQLctI)

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