Luna Alcalay
Born(1928-10-21)21 October 1928
Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died9 October 2012(2012-10-09) (aged 83)
Vienna, Austria

Luna Alcalay (21 October 1928 – 9 October 2012)[1] was a Croatian-born Austrian pianist, music educator and composer.

Biography

Alcalay was born in Zagreb, Croatia to a Jewish family.[2] She studied piano under Bruno Seidlhofer and composition under Alfred Uhl at the Vienna Academy of Music and received a scholarship in 1958 to continue her studies in Rome.[3] She attended the Darmstadt Summer Course.[4] After completing her studies, she returned to Vienna, where she became a professor of piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts.[5][6]

Composition prizes

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Works

Selected works include:

Alcalay's work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

References

  1. ^ "In Memoriam Luna Alcalay" Zeit-Ton [de], Ö1 (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  2. ^ Kraus, Ognjen (1998). Dva stoljeća povijesti i kulture Židova u Zagrebu i Hrvatskoj [Two centuries of Jewish history and culture in Zagreb and Croatia] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Židovska općina Zagreb. p. 242. ISBN 953-96836-2-9.
  3. ^ a b c "Luna Alcalay". Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  4. ^ a b Scholz, Gottfried, ed. (1993). Austrian Contemporary Music. Vienna: Doblinger. ISBN 9783900695224.
  5. ^ "Luna Alcalay" (PDF). Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  6. ^ Hixon, Donald L.; Hennessee, Don A. (1993). Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography. Vol. 1. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-2769-1. Retrieved 11 November 2010.

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