Luc Ferrari

20th century French composer Luc Ferrari has been a major contributor to musique concrète for several decades. In the late 1950s, he began collaborating with the "Groupe de Musique Concrete" (a relationship which lasted until 1966) and helped Pierre Schaeffer found the "Groupe de Recherches Musicales," a group and studio dedicated to the electronic medium where Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen could also be found. As a student, Ferrari had studied composition with Arthur Honegger and piano with Alfred Cortot until 1950. Around 1953, he studied musical analysis and mo...