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Saturday, November 5, 2016

Jean-Jacques Perrey, electronic musical pioneer, dies at 87

The French composer who co-wrote Baroque Hoedown – known to millions of Disneyland visitors – dies in Switzerland

Jean-Jacques Perrey, the French composer and pioneer of electronic music, has died at 87.

Perrey died in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Friday “from a very quick and violent lung cancer,” according to his daughter, Patricia Leroy.

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by Associated Press via Electronic music | The Guardian

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