For a time he worked as an assistant to the conductor Bruno Walter at the Charlottenburg Opera in Berlin and for Radio Prague and saw some of his earliest compositions played in Carlsbad, Berlin, Wroclaw, Prague and Vienna. He graduated in 1934 with a dissertation on Gustav Mahler but refused a degree in protest of his ordinarius (=professor) Gustav Becking who was a Nazi supporter. While a student he met and became friends with Albert Einstein. He then studied in Prague under Gustav Becking and Paul Nettl (father of the musicologist Bruno Nettl). He studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin training under Franz Schreker and Curt Sachs between 19. Kaufmann was born in Karlovy Vary to Julius and Josefine Antonia.
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