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Konstantin Kosta P. Manojlovi was a Serbian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator and choral conductor.

Konstantin Manojlovi was born in Krnjevo near the town of Velika Plana on December 4, 1890. After completing elementary school, he continued his education at Saint Sava seminary where he graduated in 1910. He then attended the Serbian Music School where he was a student of Stevan Stojanovi Mokranjac. From 1910 to 1912 he worked as a teacher, first in uprija then in Belgrade. In 1912, he received a scholarship for his further education in Moscow and Munich. His studies were interrupted twice because of the Balkan Wars. During the First World War, he participated in the Serbian armys retreat through Albania and belonged to the group of Serbian soldiers stationed at Corfu. There, he established a military choir in 1916. In 1917 Manojlovi studied at Oxford University, where he gained an appreciation for old vocal polyphony, graduating in 1919 with his work On the Rivers of Babylon.

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