Biography
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Born
6 June 1929
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Born In
Lviv, L'vivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
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Died
1 July 2019 (aged 90)
Bogusław Schaeffer (b. June 6, 1929 in Lwów) (now Lviv, Ukraine), (died July 1st, 2019 in Salzburg)) is a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, member of the avantgarde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others. Since having studied violin in Opole and graduating musical composition under Zdzisław Jachimecki in 1953 at the Academy of Music in Kraków, Schaeffer has been an active composer and musical theoretician. From 1963, he was a lecturer composition at the Kraków Academy, and had a professor at the Hochschule für Music in Salzburg from the mid-1980s to 2000.
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