!!!Alcalay, Luna

Alcalay, Luna, b. Zagreb (Croatia), Oct. 21, 1928, composer. 
Has lived in Vienna since 1950. 1951-1957 studied at the Hochschule 
fuer Musik (now University of Music and Performing Arts) in Vienna. 
From 1959 worked as a teacher with the Vienna Boys Choir; until 1994 
taught piano at the Hochschule fuer Musik. Early contacts to the 
international avant-garde; developed her own system of composition, 
which is characterised by a non-conformist approach to music and 
tradition.

!Works
antigonenmodell, 1958 (opera based on B. Brecht´s 
"Antigone-Modell"); aspekte (2 pianos, percussion), 
1962; night-club pieces, 1966 (jazz quintet); Allgemeine Erklaerung 
der Menschenrechte, 1968 (cantata); platitudes en occasion, 1973 
(vocalists, string quintet, percussion); homo sapiens, 1977 
(radiophonic piece); ich bin in sehnsucht eingehuellt, 1984 (scenic 
reflections); der uebergangene mensch, 1996 (scenic work); touches for 
piano and orchestra, 1996.


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