Joseph Komar *68

Arthur Joseph Komar, a retired distinguished professor of music appreciation theory at the Univ. of Cincinnati, died Nov. 18, 1994. He was 60.

Born in Portland, Maine, he moved at age 15 to Chicago in order to study under a particularly distinguished piano teacher there. He earned his A.B. in history at Columbia in 1956. He got a master's degree at Yale and got his Ph.D. at Princeton in music.

He then began a career in college-level teaching, and shared his talents with several institutions, including Queens College (N.Y.C.), Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Penn, the New England Conservatory of Music, M.l.T., Wheaton, and the Univ. of Cincinnati. He retired in 1989. He also wrote several books and founded his own publishing company.

He is survived by three sons, a sister, a brother, and a nephew. To all his family and friends, we extend sincere condolences.