Luna Alcalay

Luna Alcalay
Born	(1928-10-21)21 October 1928 Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died	9 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]

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:

^ "In Memoriam Luna Alcalay" Zeit-Ton [de], 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.