Edward Laufer

Biography

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EDWARD LAUFER (b. 1938) was born in Switzerland but was brought with his family to Halifax in 1939. Trained at the University of Toronto, the Juilliard School of Music, and Princeton University in composition, theory and performance (piano), Laufer has studied with many eminent musicians including John Weinzweig, Alberto Guerrero, Edward Steuermann, Ernst Oster, Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions. In 1975 he became an associate professor at the Faculty of Music of the University of Toronto, where he has distinguished himself as an authority on the techniques of analysis proposed by Heinrich Schenker. His invigoratingly dissonant compositions are few in number and date primarily from the 1960s and 70s.

Daniel Foley, 1998

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