Canadian composer

R. Murray Schafer

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Canadian composer
Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Governor General's Performing Arts Award
Molson Prize
Companion of the Order of Canada
Glenn Gould Prize
Fumio Koizumi Prize for Ethnomusicology
Music

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.