Diskussion:Branka Musulin
Branka Musulin (6 August 1917 - 1 January 1975) was a German-Croatian classical pianist and teacher. Musulin was born in Croatia in Zagreb. As from the age of eight, she studied with celebrated Croatian pianist Svetislav Stančić in Zagreb and played in public at that time. After her concert diploma, she travelled to Paris in 1936 to study with Alfred Cortot and Yvonne Lefébure. As from 1938, she studied with Alfredo Casella in Siena and after 1941 with Max von Pauer in South Germany .
In 1944, she married Friedrich Bienert in Dresden, they had one daughter. Branka Musulin played under the baton of Hans Müller-Kray, Willem Mengelberg, Hermann Abendroth, Franz Konwitschny, Karl Böhm, Georg Solti and Sergiu Celibidache. In 1958, she became lecturer, later professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.
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Die Porträtfotografie von Branka Musulin trägt die Handschrift des Fotografen und Malers Edmund Kesting (1892-1970), der jahrzehntelang in Dresden wirkte und die hier zu sehende Technik der Doppelbelichtung entwickelte. Kestings Buch "Ein Maler sieht durchs Objektiv" (1958) bietet zahlreiche weitere Porträts dieser Art, auch von Dresdener Prominenz.
