Victor Urbancic ( Isl. Victor Urbancic , actually Victor Ernest Johann von Urbanchich , German Viktor Ernest Johann von Urbantschitsch ; August 9, 1903 , Vienna - April 4, 1958 , Reykjavik ) - Austrian-Icelandic conductor and composer. Grandson of otolaryngologist Victor Urbanchich , nephew of psychologist Rudolf Urbancic .
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He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music under Paul Weingarten (piano), Joseph Marx (composition), Clemens Krauss (conducting). He also studied musicology at the University of Vienna under the guidance of Guido Adler and Wilhelm Fischer , in 1925 he defended his dissertation on sonata form in the work of Johannes Brahms .
In the 1920s worked as bandmaster for Max Reinhardt at the Josefstadt Theater . Since 1926, he worked in Mainz as a corepeter and operetta conductor, since 1930 also as an opera conductor. In 1933, after the Nazis came to power, he was forced to leave Germany, since the wife of Urbanchich Melitt , nee Grünbaum, was Jewish. He worked for a short time in Belgrade , then, returning to Austria, settled in Graz , heading the Institute of Music Studies at the University of Graz and at the same time taking the post of Deputy Director of the Styrian Conservatory German von Schmeidel . After Anschluss in 1938, he emigrated to Iceland with his wife and three children, exchanging jobs with Franz Mixa , a Nazi supporter who wanted to return to Austria [1] .
For 20 years he played a significant life in the musical life of Iceland, in 1949 he received the citizenship of this country [2] . He was an organist and choirmaster of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Reykjavik, taught at the Reykjavik College of Music, acted as an accompanist with soloists touring in Iceland (in particular, with Ibolka Zilzer in 1946). In 1943, on the initiative and under the direction of Urbancic, Reykjavik hosted the performance of “Passion for John” by I. S. Bach with the text of Hallgrimur Pietursson in Icelandic. As the musical director of the National Theater of Iceland in 1951 he conducted the country's first opera performance - the production of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi .
Author of orchestral and chamber compositions, songs.
Commander of the Order of the Icelandic Falcon .
Notes
- ↑ Peter Stenberg. The Saga of Melitta Urbancic // Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / Études Scandinaves Au Canada , Vol. 24 (2017), pp. 210-225.
- ↑ Rudolf Flotzinger. Urbantschitsch (Urbancic), Victor // Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online
Links
- Rudolf Habringer. Victor Urbancic // Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit, Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (Hg.), Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 2006.