Simon Bucharoff(1881-1955)
- Music Department
Composer, arranger, orchestrator, author, pianist and educator,
educated at the Vienna Conservatory. He studied with Julius Epstein,
Emil Sauer, Stephen Stocker, and R. Fuchs. In 1907, he headed the piano
department at the Wichita College of Music while continuing his career
as a concert pianist (1906-1916). He taught master classes in composing
and composition from 1931 to 1936, and then continued as a music
educator while joining Hollywood studios' music departments as an
orchestrator and arranger. He authored "The Modern Pianist's Text
Book". (See "Other Works" for a list of his
compositions.)