Walter Kaufmann (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Kaufmann (composer)

Czech composer

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1907

Place of Birth: Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1984

Profession: composer, conductor, pedagogue, musicologist, ethnomusicologist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Walter Kaufmann (1 April 1907 – 9 September 1984) was a composer, conductor, musicologist, and educator.
Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (at that time part of Austria-Hungary), Kaufmann enjoyed a career that crossed international boundaries, taking him to Berlin, Bombay (now Mumbai), London, and Canada, before he settled in Bloomington, Indiana, USA in 1957.
After 1945 he was not allowed to come back to Bohemia because of his German ethnicity.
In 1964, he became a naturalized U.S.
citizen. Kaufmann was noted for his study of Asian music, specializing in the music of India, Tibet, and China. He was the composer of an opera, The Scarlet Letter, which was very well received at its premiere by the Opera Department of the Indiana University School of Music in the early 1960s. He is also known for composing the signature music for All India Radio in 1936.
The tune is still broadcast as the opening sequence of AIR stations across India. Kaufmann died in 1984 in Bloomington.