Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann (composer)
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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.[1] The tune is still broadcast as the opening sequence of AIR stations across India.

Kaufmann died in 1984 in Bloomington.

Works
Altindien (Musikgeschichte in Bildern, Bd. 2 ; Musik des Alterums, Lfg. 8. Leipzig, Deutscher Verlag fur Musik, 1981)
Musical Notations of the Orient: Notational Systems of Continental, East, South and Central Asia (Indiana University Humanities Series, no. 60. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1967)
Musical References in the Chinese Classics (Detroit, Information Coordinators, 1976)
The Ragas of North India (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1968)
The Ragas of South India: A Catalogue of Scalar Material (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1976)
Selected Musical Terms of Non-Western Cultures: A Notebook-Glossary (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, no. 65. Warren, MI, Harmonie Park Press, 1990)
Tibetan Buddhist Chant: Musical Notations and Interpretations of a Song Book by the Bkah Brgyud Pa and Sa Skya Pa Sects (Indiana University Humanities Series, no. 70. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1975)

References
"Remembering the Jewish refugee who composed the All India Radio caller tune". Scroll.in. Retrieved 24 October 2014.

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From "Indiana University Jacobs school of Music," https://music.indiana.edu/giving/scholarships/scholarships-Kaufmann...
Freda and Walter Kaufmann Prize in Musicology
KaufmannThis prize honors the memory of pianist and educator Freda Kaufmann and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music Walter Kaufmann. Mrs. Kaufmann earned a Piano Performer's Certificate in 1935 from the Toronto Conservatory of Music and a Performer's Certificate in 1936 from the Royal Academy of Music in England. In 1940 she received a Bachelor of Music degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Chicago. Mrs. Kaufmann was part-time assistant professor of music at IU Jacobs School of Music from 1961 until her retirement in 1986. She passed away in March of 1990, and was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Kaufmann, who died in 1984.

Internationally known for his many outstanding contributions to music as a conductor, composer, and scholar, Walter Kaufmann was the epitome of the complete musician. Professor Kaufmann was born in 1907 in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia and studied at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin and the German University in Prague. In 1934 he emigrated to India, where he became Director of European Music at All-India Radio in Bombay. After serving in the British Navy during World War II, Professor Kaufmann left India to conduct at the BBC in England. In the following year he moved to Canada, where for eight years he was conductor and musical director of the Winnipeg Symphony. In 1957 Professor Kaufmann joined the musicology faculty at Indiana University where he served until 1977.

The Freda and Walter Kaufmann Prize in Musicology is awarded annually by the IU musicology faculty to a student who has demonstrated excellence in all aspects of graduate study and has shown professional initiative.

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Birth record: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000141931329767
KARLOVY VARY (o. Karlovy Vary), book 760, N 1888-1908, repro 140 (out of 158), folio 134, line 442
2nd child

"Indiana Naturalization Records and Indexes, 1848-1992," database with images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVM8-H71X
Became US citizen 6 January, 1964

"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPPC-KMP

Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126370522/walter-kaufmann Find A Grave Memorial

ARC Ensemble and time in Winnipeg: https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/CH20170.pdf and https://theviolinchannel.com/vc-interview-simon-wynberg-arc-ensembl...

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