Edward Kilenyi, Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Kilenyi, Jr.

American musician

Date of Birth: 07-May-1910

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 06-Jan-2000

Profession: composer, pianist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Edward Kilenyi, Jr.
(1910 – 2000) was a classical pianist.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 7, 1910.
Kilenyi, Jr.
studied in Hungary with the composer/pianist Erno Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, earning a diploma in 1930.
He later became a Professor of Music at Florida State University 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 George Gershwin for five years and wrote music for the Sam Fox Publishing Company and over 40 movies from the 1910s-1940s.