Éliane Radigue, a French electronic composer behind multiple masterworks of musique concrète and minimalism, has died. The Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (INA GRM), a Paris-based research institute that specializes in the genre, confirmed the news today, February 24. A cause of death was not disclosed; Radique was 94 years old. “An early collaborator in the field of musique concrète, working first with Pierre Schaeffer and then Pierre Henry, Éliane Radigue went on to carve out her own path with unparalleled freedom and vision,” INA GRM’s statement read. “A major figure in musical creation has left us.” Born in 1932 in Paris, Radigue came of age alongside France’s burgeoning musique concrète movement, which would influence and shape her own patient musical style. In her early twenties, she discovered Pierre Schaeffer’s work on a radio broadcast, later meeting him by chance through a friend. Radigue went on to study as an apprentice under Schaeffer and Pierre Henry at the Studio d’Essai.…