Edward Constantin Laufer (25 November 1938 – 7 May 2014"In Memory of Edward Constantin Laufer, November 25, 1938 – May 7, 2014"
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Clifford Ford Clifford Robert Ford (born 30 May 1947) is a Canadian composer, Carl Morey. Music in Canada: A Research and Information Guide'. Routledge; 26 November 2013. . p. 30. editor, music educator, and author. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, h ...

in ''

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'' (last edited December 16, 2013), accessed September 28, 2017. His family emigrated to Canada in 1939, settling in Halifax. (He became a naturalized citizen in 1953.) Laufer obtained his bachelor of music degree from the

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in 1957 and his Masters of Music degree from the same institution in 1960. He studied composition with

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, John Beckwith,

Oskar Morawetz Oskar Morawetz, (January 17, 1917 – June 13, 2007) was a Canadian composer. Biography Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), into a Jewish family. He studied piano and theory in Prague and, follow ...

, and

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. Some time after 1960 he temporarily settled in the New York area, attending the

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where he studied piano with

Eduard Steuermann Eduard Steuermann (June 18, 1892, Sambor, Austria-Hungary – November 11, 1964, New York City) was an Austrian-born American pianist and composer. Steuermann studied piano with Vilém Kurz at the Lemberg Conservatory and Ferruccio Busoni in ...

and composition with

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. At

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, he studied composition with

Milton Babbitt Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He was a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, recognized for his serial and electronic music. Biography ...

Earl Kim Earl Kim (1920–1998; né Eul Kim) was an American composer, and music pedagogue. He was of Korean descent. Early life, education, and training Kim was born on January 6, 1920, in Dinuba, California, to immigrant Korean parents. He began pia ...

, and

Roger Sessions Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, a ...

. While in the New York area, he studied

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privately with Ernst Oster. Laufer obtained a Masters of Fine Arts from Princeton University in 1964. Before returning to Canada, he taught at

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from 1969 to 1971, the

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from 1972 to 1974, and the

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from 1973 to 1974. Moving back to Toronto, he was composer-in-residence from 1974 to 1975 at the University of Toronto, and then became a member of its Faculty of Music. He gave lectures in Canada, the United States, Finland, and England. He published articles in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Intégral''.

References

External links

* Th
Edward Laufer Electronic Archive (ELEA)
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laufer, Edward 1938 births 2014 deaths University of Toronto alumni Juilliard School alumni Princeton University alumni 20th-century Canadian composers Canadian male composers Academic staff of the University of Toronto 20th-century Canadian male musicians