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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