CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Not to be confused with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . André Tchaikowsky as a young man André Tchaikowsky (also Andrzej Czajkowski ; born Robert Andrzej Krauthammer ; November 1, 1935 – June 26, 1982) was a Polish composer and pianist . 1 Life and career 2 Skull 3 Notable compositions 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External links Life and career [ edit ] Robert Andrzej Krauthammer was born in Warsaw in 1935. He had shown musical talent from an early age, and his mother, an amateur pianist, was teaching him the piano when he was four years old. His family was Jewish; when the Second World War broke out, they were moved into the Warsaw Ghetto . Krauthammer remained here until 1942, when he was smuggled out and provided with forged identity papers that renamed him Andrzej Czajk...