Arnoff, Selda Arginteanu (fem) 7.oct.1918-6.nov.2013 USA NY, Schenectady - California, Chicopianist, percussionist, musicologist, born at 26 Lafayette Street, studied piano with Elizabeth Quaile, Juliette Arnold and Rosa Simon, musicology with Paul Henry Lang, Erich Hertzmann, Douglas S Moore and William J Mitchell, composition with Walter Helfer, Charles W Hughes and Marion Bauer, theory with Arthur Mendel, Angela Diller and Frederick Hart, 1935-1939 studied at Diller-Quaile School of Music, 1939 AB from Hunter College, 1943 AM from Columbia University, 1943-1944 librarian at Columbia University, 1948 librarian of Newark Colleges at Rutgers University, 1946-1952 residing with her parents at 390 Wadsworth Avenue in Manhattan, 1949 cataloger at Rutgers University, 1955 residing at 17 Chittenden Avenue in New York City, 1975-1998 at 28 Inwood Street in Yonkers NY ; daughter of dentist Dr. Marcus Arginteanu (Romania, Bucharest 14.jul.1884-jul.1977 Bronx) and Renee Bierner (Romania 1890-1951 Manhattan) ; 22.dec.1952 in Brooklyn she married Louis S Arnoff ; son Owen Sherwood (Manhattan 17.sep.1962-)