Walter E. Aschaffenburg

Walter E. Aschaffenburg (1927–2005) was a German-born American composer, who for most of his career taught composition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. One commentator noted that he "employed the 12-tone system in some of his works, his scores are often embued with a meticulous expressivity." He regarded his greatest work as ''Bartleby'', an opera with a libretto by Jay Leyda, based on the Herman Melville story, ''Bartleby'', and premiered by Oberlin Music Theatre in 1964.

He was twice awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for Music Composition first in 1955, then again in 1973. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize, as well.

In 1987, he married the pianist and music performance professor Rayna Barroll (1930–2016). Provided by Wikipedia