Luna Alcalay


Luna Alcalay was a Croatian-born Austrian pianist, music educator and composer, described as "one of the most internationally renowned Austrian composers."

Biography

Alcalay was born in Zagreb, Croatia, to a Jewish family. 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. She attended the Darmstadt Summer Course.
After completing her studies, Alcalay returned to Vienna, where she became a professor of piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. She died in 2012, at the age of 83, in Vienna.

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
  • Apostrophen
  • Gyroskop for viola solo
  • un sogno à tre for flute, viola and harp
  • relatif à la sonorité
  • Touches
  • conversations à trois
  • L'intérieur des pensées
  • Applications
  • Pas de deux
  • Trio
  • Syntax
  • En circuit · Der alte Friedhof in Prag
  • Bagatellen
  • Transparenzen
  • Sentenzen
  • Quasi una Fantasia
  • Touches
  • Der übergangene Mensch
  • A Game for Two
  • Due sentenze
  • 3 poems
  • En passant
  • Ich bin in sehnsucht eingehüllt '', Scenic reflections on love poems by Selma Meerbaum, 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: