French moog composer dies

French moog composer dies

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norman lebrecht

November 05, 2016

Jean-Jacques Perrey, an early electronics composer, died on Friday in Lausanne, Switzerland, at 87.

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Comments

  • John Borstlap says:

    Why would an elephant want to remember this?

  • Bill Murphy says:

    Probably the single most commercially successful electronic composer ever, with a string of chart hits in the 60s. If nothing else, his music for Disney’s Main Street guarantees him a niche in a certain kind of history. Champion of the Ondioline; God knows, it needed one.

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