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Mr. Muczynski, who was 81, was born in Chicago of Polish dodgersofficialauthentic.com/Authentic-Clayton-Kershaw-Jersey and Slovak immigrant background in 1929. composition student of the renowned Russian emigr Alexander Tcherepnin and a piano student of Walter Knupfer. Muczynski received undergraduate and master degrees from DePaul in piano performance.He later taught composition at DePaul, as well as at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University, at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and, from 1965, at the University of Arizona Tucson, where he was both www.dodgersofficialauthentic.com/Authentic-Hanley-Ramirez-Jersey chairman of composition and composer in residence. students there included eclectic composer performer Paul Schoenfield.Mr. Muczynski made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut at age 29 in 1958 in a program of his own solo piano pieces.Over a half century, from 1950 to 1996, Mr. Muczynski produced about 50 published compositions, mostly with G. Schirmer and Theodore Presser Co. last published work, "Desperate Measures (Paganini Variations)," Op. 48, for solo piano, appeared in 1996. title of this 10 minute work gave a sense of both Mr. Muczynski wry sense of humor and his tenacity.Mr. Muczynski chamber works, including the now standard 1961 Flute and Piano Sonata, are widely performed around the world, are staples of wind players and college and conservatory ensembles, and have been recorded on many labels, as well as being the subject of many doctoral dissertations and other academic studies.