Svetislav Stancic ( Croatian Svetislav Stančić ; July 7, 1895 , Zagreb - January 7, 1970 , ibid.) - Croatian pianist, composer and music teacher.
He graduated from the Croatian Institute of Music ( 1914 ), then studied in Berlin with Konrad Anzorge and Karl Heinrich Barth, and finally in 1918 - 1922 . privately engaged with Ferruccio Busoni . In 1927 , he abandoned active concert activities and devoted the rest of his life to teaching and, to a lesser extent, composition. He taught at the Academy of Music , among his students Melita Lorkovic , Milan Horvat , Pavitsa Gvozdich, Vladimir Krpan. Edited works of the early Croatian composers - Ferdo Livadic and Fortunat Pintaric .
Since 1999 , the Svetislav Stancic International Piano Competition has been held in Zagreb.