John Pfeiffer

Producer and engineer who worked with RCA. Born in Tucson, AZ on September 29th, 1920 and died at the age of 75 in Manhattan due to a heart attack. He joined RCA in 1949 where he started as a design engineer. In 1950 he moved to Artists & Repertoire, where he was a producer for classical music with Red Seal and eventually became the Executive Producer overseeing all classical labels at RCA. However, he also helped RCA develop stereo and quadraphonic recording techniques and coordinate their adoption of digital recording. In addition to this, he composed one LP of electronic music. Sometimes credited under his nickname Jack Pfeiffer.