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Ludmila Ulehla
Ludmila Ulehla (1923–2009) was an American composer and music educator.

Biography
Ludmila Ulehla was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. She began the study of piano and violin very early and wrote short compositions at the age of five. Later she studied
composition under Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan School of Music and was awarded a master's degree. Ulehla took a position on the faculty of the same school in 1947,
and was Chair of the Composition Department from 1972 to 1989.[1][2]

Ulehla was named Outstanding Educator in Who’s Who of American Women, and has received ASCAP awards. She wrote a book entitled Contemporary  Harmony  –
Romanticism Through the 12­Tone Row which was published by Advance Music.[3]

Works
Ulehla's compositions were primarily for solo and chamber ensembles. Selected works include:

Elegy for a Whale

Gargoyles for Hindell
Michelangelo for Orchestra
Remembrances for Heifetz
Unrolling a Chinese Scroll
Sybil of the American Revolution, chamber opera, 1993
Undersea Fantasy for Orchestra, 1999
Sonata for Improvisation for clarinet, soprano saxophone and piano.[4]

References
1. "Classical Composers" (http://www.leonarda.com/comptv.html). Retrieved 27 September 2010.
2. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (https://books.google.com/?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA439&dq=Ludmila+Ul
ehla+norton+grove#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
3. "LUDMILA ULEHLA (1923-2009)" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100416180855/http://awakenthemusic.typepad.com/awaken_the_music/2009/12/ludmila-ulehla-192320
09.html). Archived from the original (http://awakenthemusic.typepad.com/awaken_the_music/2009/12/ludmila-ulehla-19232009.html) on 16 April 2010. Retrieved

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4. "Ms. Ludmila Ulehla" (http://www.msmnyc.edu/catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1008173222). Retrieved 27 September 2010.

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