Artist
Pierre Schaeffer
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
Appears on
Étude aux chemins de fer
1948
Ranked No. 1 in Musique Concrète
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.