Marcel Frémiot

Marcel Frémiot (29 February 1920 – 19 January 2018)[1] was a French composer and musicologist.

He was artistic director or sound recordist in several record companies (Le Chant du Monde, Harmonia Mundi, disques Jéricho).

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.

He wrote numerous articles in the Encyclopédie de la Musique (Fasquelle), Twenty Century Music (Calder Publishing, London), the Histoire de la musique (La Pléiade), the Encyclopédie des musiques sacrées (éditions Labergerie), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.