Marcel Frémiot
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Marcel Frémiot | |
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| Born | February 29, 1920 8th arrondissement of Paris, France |
| Died | January 19, 2018 (aged 97) |
| Education | Conservatoire de Paris |
| Occupations | Composer, musicologist |
| Organizations | Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille (GMEM), Laboratoire Musique et informatique de Marseille (MIM) |
| Known for | Founding electroacoustic music class in Marseille, contributions to musical semiotics |
| Notable work | Electroacoustic compositions, musicological analyses |
Marcel Frémiot (29 February 1920 – 19 January 2018)[1] was a French composer and musicologist.[2]
Born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Frémiot was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris and a pupil of René Leibowitz. He was introduced to musicology by Vladimir Fedoroff.
He was artistic director or sound recordist in several record companies (Le Chant du Monde, Harmonia Mundi, disques Jéricho). From 1966, he was a professor of music history at the Marseille conservatory. In 1967–1968, he was a trainee of the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer.
In 1968, he was the professor of the first class of electroacoustic music at the Marseille conservatory, created on the initiative of its director Pierre Barbizet. In 1970, he founded the "Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille" (GMEM).[3] In 1984, he created the Laboratoire Musique et informatique de Marseille (MIM).[4]
