Edward Kilenyi Jr. (1910 – 2000) was a classical pianist. He was born in

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on May 7, 1910. Kilenyi studied in Hungary with the composer/pianist

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at the

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, earning a diploma in 1930. He later became a Professor of Music at

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in Tallahassee, Florida in 1953, four years after Dohnanyi began teaching there. He died on January 6, 2000. A collection of recordings of his concerts is located at the International Piano Archives at the University of Maryland (IPAM). His father, Edward Kilenyi Sr. (1884 – 1968), also a noted musician, arrived in the United States from Hungary in 1908. Kilenyi Sr. taught music to

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for five years and wrote music for the

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and over 40 movies from the 1910s-1940s.

References

External links

Edward Kilenyi collection
at the International Piano Archives at Maryland. Retrieved 19 Jul 2013.
Edward Kilenyi's Profile at The Remington SiteThe Edward Kilenyi Archive at the Warren D. Allen Music Library at Florida State University
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