Luna Alcalay Explained

Luna Alcalay
Birth Date:	1928 10, df=yes
Birth Place:	Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Death Place:	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

• Darmstadt 1963 and 1964
• Gaudeamus Competition 1967
• Berlin 1972
• International ISCM competition Italy 1973
• ORF Steiermark 1973
• "Preis der Stadt Wien" 1992

Works

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)
• 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"

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

External links

• , Luna Alcalay,, 2007
• Luna Alcalay, published works available from Edition HH

Notes and References

1. https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20121022/290043/Zeit-Ton "In Memoriam Luna Alcalay"
2. Book: Kraus, Ognjen. Dva stoljeća povijesti i kulture Židova u Zagrebu i Hrvatskoj. Two centuries of Jewish history and culture in Zagreb and Croatia. hr. 242. 1998. Židovska općina Zagreb. Zagreb. 953-96836-2-9.
3. Web site: Luna Alcalay. 11 October 2010.
4. Book: Austrian Contemporary Music . Doblinger . 1993 . 9783900695224. Scholz . Gottfried . Vienna.
5. Web site: Luna Alcalay. 11 October 2010.
6. Book: Hixon. Donald L.. Hennessee. Don A.. Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography. 1. 11 November 2010. 1993. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-2769-1.