Walter Kaufmann (1 April 1907 – 9 September 1984) was a composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, librettist and educator. Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (at that time part of Austria-Hungary), he trained in Prague and Berlin before fleeing the Nazi persecution of Jews to work in Bombay until Indian Independence. He then moved to London, and Canada, before he settled to become a professor of musicology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA in 1957. In 1964, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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1 April 1907
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9 September 1984 (aged 77)
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