Branka Musulin

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Branka Musulin (born August 6, 1917 in Zagreb , Austria-Hungary , † January 1, 1975 in Schmallenberg ) was a Croatian-German pianist and university teacher.

Life

Musulin performed publicly as a child. She studied with Professor Svetislav Stančić in Zagreb. After completing her concert diploma and high school diploma, she went to Paris in 1936 to study with Alfred Cortot and Yvonne Lefébure . She continued her studies in 1938 with Alfredo Casella in Siena and with Max von Pauer in Hesse. Her fiancé was murdered in Yugoslavia during the German occupation because he was of Jewish origin. In 1944 she married the Nazi opponent, entrepreneur and patron Friedrich Bienert in Dresden . With him she had a daughter who grew up with her father after her parents separated. The well-known concert pianist taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt from 1958 . Branka Musulin died in the Sauerland at the age of 57 . She was married for the second time to the Bad Homburg psychotherapist Ernst August Kreft, who however died soon after her, so that her music educational texts were no longer published.

literature

  • Ernst Krause, Josef Hegenbarth: The portrait of Branka Musulin . Verlag der Kunst, 1958.
  • Hans-Peter Range: The concert pianists of the present . Moritz Schauenburg Verlag KG., Lahr / Black Forest 1964.
  • Friedhelm Brusniak : ... a game determined by clearly differentiated sound ideas - memories of the Frankfurt pianist and piano teacher Branka Musulin (1920–1975), pp. 45–56 in musicology and music education in an interdisciplinary discourse: a commemorative publication for Ute Jung-Kaiser (Studies and materials on musicology), Olms Verlag, 2008, ISBN 348713683X .
  • Moritz von Bredow: Spirit made sound . Branka Musulin on her 100th birthday. A homage. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. August 14, 2017, p. 10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hastedt: Branka Musulin - Biographical Data , accessed on February 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Melos / NZ - New Magazine for Music (Robert Schumann Society) Volume 1; P. 137, Schott, 1975
  3. ↑ George Kehler: The piano in concert- Volume 2, p. 883, Scarecrow Press, 1982
personal data
SURNAME Musulin, Branka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-German pianist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1975
Place of death Schmallenberg