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=== Later life and death === Schaeffer became an [[associate professor]] at the [[Paris Conservatoire]] from 1968 to 1980 after creating a "class of fundamental music and application to the audiovisual."<ref name="Schaeffer2"/> In the aftermath of the [[1988 Armenian earthquake]], the 78-year-old Schaeffer led a 498-member French rescue team to look for survivors in Leninakan, and worked there until all foreign personnel were asked to leave.<ref name=nyt_Dec16>{{cite news|title=As Hope Dies, Quake Rescuers Pull Out|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/16/world/as-hope-dies-quake-rescuers-pull-out.html?pagewanted=all|first=Bill|last=Keller|author-link=Bill Keller|date=December 16, 1988|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 10, 2012}}</ref> Schaeffer suffered from [[Alzheimer's disease]] later in his life, and died from the condition in [[Aix-en-Provence]] in 1995.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} He was 85 years old. He is buried in Delincourt in the green Vexin region (55 minutes from Paris) where he used to have his countryside property.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} Schaeffer was thereafter remembered by many of his colleagues with the title, "Musician of Sounds".{{Clarify|date=August 2015}}<!--What is this supposed to mean?-->
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