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'''Edward Kilenyi Jr.''' (1910 – 2000) was a classical pianist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 7, 1910. Kilenyi studied in Hungary with the composer/pianist Ernő 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, {{ill|Edward Kilenyi Sr.|hu|Kilényi Ede (zeneszerző)}} (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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/ascapbiographica007734mbp#page/n295/mode/2up/search/kilenyi|title = The Ascap Biographical Dictionary of Composers Authors and Publishers Second Edition|year = 1952|publisher = Thomas Y. Crowell Company}}</ref> and wrote music for the Sam Fox Publishing Company and over 40 movies from the 1910s-1940s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/kilenyi/ekilenyisr|title=Edward Kilenyi Sr. biography|work= Kilenyi Family Archive of the Warren D. Allen Music Library, Florida State University|accessdate=20 August 2018}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/edward-kilenyi Edward Kilenyi collection] at the International Piano Archives at Maryland. Retrieved 19 Jul 2013. *[http://www.soundfountain.org/rem/remkilen.html Edward Kilenyi's Profile at The Remington Site] *[http://www.music.fsu.edu/library/specialcollections/kilenyi The Edward Kilenyi Archive at the Warren D. Allen Music Library at Florida State University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011130305/http://www.music.fsu.edu/library/specialcollections/kilenyi |date=2017-10-11 }}
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