Velimirović, Miloš

Retired University of Virginia professor of music, Milo*s Velimirovic was born December 10, 1922, in Belgrade. He studied at the Belgrade Academy of Music and the University of Belgrade, where he earned a diploma in the history of fine arts. He later earned an MA and PhD at Harvard and then served on the faculty at Yale, 1957-1969, then the University of Wisconsin until 1973 and finally the University of Virginia until his retirement in 1993. A prolific writer of articles in scholarly journals, he also edited numerous other publications and wrote many reviews of books and recordings. Some of his seminal work has focused on the relationship between Slavic and Greek chant melodies of the Slavonic heirmoi.

From the description of Papers of Miloš M. Velimirovic, 1955-1992. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 60358679

Retired University of Virginia professor of music, Milo*s Velimirovi*c was born December 10, 1922, in Belgrade. He studied at the Belgrade Academy of Music and the University of Belgrade, where he earned a diploma in the history of fine arts. He later earned an MA and PhD at Harvard and then served on the faculty at Yale, 1957-1969, then the University of Wisconsin until 1973 and finally the University of Virginia until his retirement in 1993. A prolific writer of articles in scholarly journals, he also edited numerous other publications and wrote many reviews of books and recordings. Some of his seminal work has focused on the relationship between Slavic and Greek chant melodies of the Slavonic heirmoi.

Albert J. Swan was a member of an English family who settled in Russia, where he was born on October 9, 1890, at St. Petersburg, where he also attended the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He left to study law, languages and music at Oxford, England, emigrating to the United States in the 1920s. He taught first at the University of Virginia, and then jointly at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges from 1926 until his retirement in 1959. Swan was first recognized as a writer on music and as a musicologist interested in the relationship between Russian church chant and folk song. His work as a composer produced "four piano sonatas, six quartets, and much liturgical choral music, written mostly to old Slavonic texts for the Orthodox church, including a complete setting of the extensive Orthodox service," among others. He died on October 2, 1970, in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Pavel Chesnokov was born on November 5, 1877, in Voskresensk. His father was a music teacher and conductor, and his mother was a singer. He was enrolled in the Moscow Synodal Choir School as a child where he remained as a faculty member after his graduation. He composed music for the services of the Orthodox Church and in 1913 enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory. Until his death in Moscow on March 14, 1944, he was occupied primarily with the teaching of choral techniques and conducting.

From the description of Papers of Miloš Velimirović [manuscript], 1933-1990. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647990529