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First name: Mieczyslaw
Last name: Kolinski
Dates: 1901-1981
Category: Quartet
Nationality: american
Opus name: Chamber Sonatina
Publisher: CMC 1980/1027
Peculiarities: See: http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=score.FA_dsp_details&bibliographyid=852&dsp_page=6
Information: According to the Internet, Mieczyslaw Kolinski was born in Poland and educated in Germany, received his doctorate at the University of Berlin, and taught there and in Prague before being forced into hiding in Belgium by the Nazi persecutions. Following World War II, he emigrated to the United States, where he was active in such varied fields as music therapy and music editing, as well as in folk music transcription and research. He was founding president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and an internationally eminent ethnomusicologist, music theorist and composer. His works include orchestral pieces, chamber music, keyboard and much vocal works.