Ellis Kohs

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Ellis Kohs

Communications

#12158

World Rank

#16246

Historical Rank

#5379

USA Rank

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Why Is Ellis Kohs Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Ellis Bonoff Kohs was an American composer, theory textbook author, and Professor at the University of Southern California. Life and career Born in Chicago to Pauline Bonoff, a school teacher of Russian Jewish extraction, and Samuel C. Kohs, Kohs grew up in San Francisco, where he undertook his early musical studies at the San Francisco Conservatory. In 1928 his family moved to New York where he entered the Institute of Musical Art. He continued his studies at the University of Chicago, studying composition with Carl Bricken. After he completed his master's degree there in 1938, he returned to New York and enrolled at the Juilliard School, where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar. He also studied composition with Walter Piston and musicology with Willi Apel and Hugo Leichtentritt at Harvard University. During World War II, Kohs conducted the Army and Air Force bands at Fort Benning, Ga.; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Nashville. After the war he joined the faculty of Wesleyan University, where he taught composition from 1946 to 1948, and the Kansas City Conservatory, where he taught during the summers of 1946 and 1947.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Ellis Kohs?

Ellis Kohs is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Southern California
• Stanford University
• University of Chicago
• Juilliard School
• Brandeis University
• Wesleyan University
• Harvard University