Mirca Sancin

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Mirca Zupnek Sancin (3 March 1901 - 24 July 1970) was a Slovene composer and piano teacher. [1] [2] [3]

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Sancin was born in Ljubljana to Ana Petric and Franc Zupnek. She married Ivan Karel Sancin and they had one son. [2] [4] She studied composition at the Graz Conservatory (today the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz). Her teachers included Ivan Brezovsek, H. Schmidt and Lucijan Marija Skerjanc. In addition to composing, Sancin taught pano in Celje, Ljubljana, and at the State Higher Teachers’ College in Trieste. [1] [4]

Sancin’s music was published by the Ljubljana Music Society. [5]

Selected works

Chamber

Piano

Vocal

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