Bogusław Julian Schaeffer (also Schäffer) (6 June 1929 – 1 July 2019) was a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avant-garde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.
Schaeffer was born in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). After studying violin in Opole and graduating with a degree in musical composition under Zdzisław Jachimecki in 1953 at the Academy of Music in Kraków, he became an active composer and musical theoretician. From 1963, he was a lecturer on composition at the Kraków Academy, and he was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Salzburg from the mid-1980s to 2000.
Konstancja Kochaniec and Adam Walaciński were among his students.
Schaeffer's 'Klavierkonzert' was used on the soundtrack of David Lynch's 2006 film Inland Empire. "Solo", a documentary about Schaeffer was released in 2008.
In 2022, American electronic music duo Matmos released an album dedicated to the composer.
1959 - 2nd Prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition in Katowice for Monosonata for 24 solos string instruments
1962 - Prize at the Artur Malawski Competition in Kraków for Musica ipsa
1964 - 2nd Prize at the Fitelberg Competition for Little Symphony
2007 - Grand cultural award of the province of Salzburg
New Music. Problems in Contemporary Composing techniques (Nowa Muzyka) - 1958
Introduction to Composition (1974)
Quattro Movimenti for piano and orchestra - 1957
Topofonica for 40 different instruments - 1960
Musica ipsa for orchestra - 1962
Music for MI for vibraphone and orchestra - 1963
Collage and Form for 8 jazz musician and orchestra - 1963
Warsaw Overture for orchestra - 1975
Stabat Mater for sopran, alt, string orchestra and orgeln - 1983