Editing Pierre Schaeffer (section)

=== Early life and education ===
Schaeffer was born in [[Nancy, France|Nancy]] in 1910.<ref name="Schaeffer1"/> His parents were both musicians (his father was a violinist; his mother, a singer),<ref name="Schaeffer3">{{cite web|title=Musique Concrète Revisited |work=Palombini, Carlos 1999: The Electronic Musicological Review |url=http://www.rem.ufpr.br/REMv4/vol4/arti-palombini.htm |access-date=5 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023035425/http://www.rem.ufpr.br/REMv4/vol4/arti-palombini.htm |archive-date=23 October 2008 }}</ref> and at first it seemed that Pierre would also take on music as a career. However, his parents discouraged his musical pursuits from childhood and had him educated in engineering.<ref name="Schaeffer7"/> He studied at several universities in this inclination, the first of which was [[Lycée Saint-Sigisbert]], located in his hometown of Nancy. Afterwards he moved westwards in 1929 to the [[École Polytechnique]] in Paris<ref name="Schaeffer1"/><ref name="Schaeffer4">{{cite web | title= Pierre Schaeffer: Profile on Discogs.com | work= Anonymous/Various, submitted 2003: Discogs.com | url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Pierre+Schaeffer | access-date=4 December 2008}}</ref><ref name="Schaeffer8"/> and finally completed his education in the capital at the [[École supérieure d'électricité]], in 1934.<ref name="Schaeffer8">{{cite web | title= Pierre Schaeffer Biographie | work= Couprie, Pierre & OLATS 2000 | url= http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/schaeffer/biographieSchaeffer.php | access-date= 6 December 2009 | language= fr | archive-date= 10 May 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200510012820/http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/schaeffer/biographieSchaeffer.php | url-status= dead }}</ref>

Schaeffer received a diploma in radio broadcasting from the [[École Polytechnique]].<ref name="Schaeffer10"/> He may have also received a similar qualification from the [[École nationale supérieure des télécommunications]], although it is not verifiable as to whether or not he ever actually attended this university.<ref name="Schaeffer10">{{cite web | title= Excerpt from ''Electronic Music, 1948–1953'' | work= Cross, Lowell [unverifiable date]: Forum: Electronic Music and Computer Research | url= http://www.arts.rpi.edu/rolnick/classes/computermusic/Cross%20Article.pdf | access-date= 17 December 2009 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110717095536/https://www.arts.rpi.edu/rolnick/classes/computermusic/Cross%20Article.pdf | archive-date= 17 July 2011 | df= dmy-all }}</ref>