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The Kilenyi Family
Edward Kilenyi, Sr. (born Kilenyi Ede) was a Hungarian-born violinist, composer, arranger, writer on music, and teacher. His early education was primarily in Hungary, but he briefly studied with Mascagni in Rome and later attended the Cologne Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1908 (according to his diploma; other sources say 1907).
After immigrating to the United States, he apparently attended Columbia University and studied with Cornelius Rybner (or Rübner) and Daniel Gregory Mason. According to Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, he obtained a Master's and PhD from Columbia in 1915. Although Columbia has no record of him being registered as a student, his Master's essay, "The Development of the Violin Music up to the 18th Century," dated 1914, appears in the Columbia University catalog. A bound copy of that essay (possibly a draft, given the corrections and annotations in both ink and pencil) is in the Kilenyi Archive at FSU.
While he lived in New York he taught composition based on the methods of Percy Goetsc
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An Interview with Edward Kilenyi, Jr. (1910-2000) – Part I
We are pleased to be able to print for the first time in English another essay omitted for reasons of space from Bálint András Varga’s From Boulanger to Stockhausen (University of Rochester Press, 2013). This interview will be split over two posts. This week, Edward Kilenyi Jr. discusses musical life in early twentieth-century Budapest; next week includes reflections on his experiences in the United States.
Edward Kilenyi Sr. (1884-1968) was a Hungarian composer who spent most of his active life in the United States, settling there in 1908. His film music may not have survived, but his name has, thanks to his association with George Gershwin: he was Gershwin’s teacher in harmony, music theory and instrumentation.
His son, the pianist Edward Kilenyi Jr, was born in Philadelphia in 1910; seventy-two years later, in May 1982, I interviewed him in Budapest. His command of Hungarian was highly impressive, thanks to the years he had spent in Hungary as a pupil of Ernő (Ernst von) Do
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