Bogusław Schaeffer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bogusław Schaeffer

Polish composer

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1929

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Jul-2019

Profession: composer, music critic, music pedagogue

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Boguslaw Julien Schaeffer (also Schäffer) (6 June 1929 – 1 July 2019) was a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avantgarde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.
Schaeffer was born in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).
After studying violin in Opole and graduating in musical composition under Zdzislaw Jachimecki in 1953 at the Academy of Music in Kraków, he became an active composer and musical theoretician.
From 1963, he was a lecturer on composition at the Kraków Academy, and he was a professor at the Hochschule für Music in Salzburg from the mid-1980s to 2000. Konstancja Kochaniec was one of his students. Schaeffer's 'Klavier Konzert' was used on the soundtrack of David Lynch's 2006 film Inland Empire.