Svetislav Stancic

Svetislav Stančić (7 July 1895 in Zagreb – 7 January 1970 in Zagreb) was a Croatian pianist and music pedagogue.

Stančić was educated in piano in Zagreb and then moved to Berlin where he took private piano lessons, and learned composition from Ferruccio Busoni. Stančić had a career as a concert pianist, and later he became a piano teacher at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1960 he received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in music.

Some of his notable students included Ivo Maček and Vladimir Krpan. The International Piano Competition Svetislav Stančić is named after him.

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