Luna Alcalay (21 October 1928 – 9 October 2012)[1] was a Croatian-born Austrian pianist, music educator and composer.
Luna Alcalay | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 October 1928 |
| Died | 9 October 2012 (aged 83) Vienna, Austria |
Biography edit
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 edit
- Darmstadt 1963 and 1964
- Gaudeamus Competition 1967[citation needed]
- Berlin 1972
- International ISCM competition Italy 1973
- ORF Steiermark 1973
- "Preis der Stadt Wien" 1992[3]
Works edit
Selected works include:
- Apostroph (violin solo)
- Apostrophen (violoncello solo)
- Gyroskop for viola solo (1998)
- un sogno à tre for flute, viola and harp (1990)
- relatif à la sonorité (string trio)
- Touches (two pianos)
- conversations à trois (woodwind trio)
- L'intérieur des pensées (string quartet)
- Applications (for sixteen strings)
- Pas de deux (two clarinets)
- Trio (alto saxophone, drums, double bass)
- Syntax (percussion)
- En circuit · Der alte Friedhof in Prag (mezzo-soprano and ensemble)
- Bagatellen (piano solo)
- Transparenzen(piano trio)
- Sentenzen (violin concerto)
- Quasi una Fantasia (violin and piano)
- Touches (piano concerto)
- Der übergangene Mensch (Music drama)
- A Game for Two (percussion (2 players))
- Due sentenze (mezzo-soprano, oboe d'amore, piano)
- 3 poems (marimba)
- En passant (flute solo)[3]
- Ich bin in sehnsucht eingehüllt ("I'm wrapped in longing"), Scenic reflections on love poems by Selma Meerbaum (1984), written for Gunda König and Dieter Kaufmann's K&K Experimental Studio for their series of performances called "Music and Eroticism – Amor, Terror, Psyche"[4]
Alcalay's work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Der Tod des Trompeters/Heiligenlegende (Audio CD, December 1, 1995)
- Vienna Modern Masters VMM3020
References edit
- ^ "In Memoriam Luna Alcalay" Zeit-Ton, Ö1 (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Luna Alcalay". Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^ a b Scholz, Gottfried, ed. (1993). Austrian Contemporary Music. Vienna: Doblinger. ISBN 9783900695224.
- ^ "Luna Alcalay" (PDF). Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^ 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.
External links edit
- Der übergangene Mensch on YouTube, Luna Alcalay, Klaus Karlbauer, 2007
- Luna Alcalay, published works available from Edition HH
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