Edward Constantin Laufer (25 November 1938 – 7 May 2014[1]) was a Canadian music theorist, composer and teacher.
[2] Some time after 1960 he temporarily settled in the New York area, attending the Juilliard School where he studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Vincent Persichetti.
[2] At Princeton University, he studied composition with Milton Babbitt, Earl Kim, and Roger Sessions.
[2] While in the New York area, he studied Schenkerian analysis privately with Ernst Oster.
[2] Laufer obtained a Masters of Fine Arts from Princeton University in 1964.