Melita Lorković

Melita Lorković (25 November 1907 – 1 November 1987), was a Croatian female pianist and music pedagogue.

Melita Lorković

Family

She was born in Županja. Brother Mladen Pozajić was also a pianist, composer, music pedagogue, conductor and publicist. Melita educated through private lessons by Svetislav Stančić, Alfred Cortot, Lazare Lévy, Yvonne Lefebure, Wanda Landowska and Eduard Steuermann. She was introduced to her future husband Radoslav Lorković, an engineer, thanks to her friend, also a pianist, Vlasta Lorković.[1] She had two sons: Hrvoje, who was a physiologist, professor in Tübingen, London, Minneapolis and Ulm, and Radovan, a professor.

Work

After her concert tours in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Italy, as well as out of Europe, she was compared with the greatest pianists of that time Emil von Sauer, Myra Hess, Teresa Carreño and Dinu Lipatti. She was a university professor in Zagreb, Beograd and Cairo. Her students were Milko Kelemen and Milan Horvat. She was appreciated of her interpretations of Beethoven's sonatas, Schumann's Carnival and Kreislariane, Brahms, Chopin's miniatures, Listz's Sonata in h-minor, Tschaikovsky, Debussy, Rahmaninov and Bartok as well as sonatas of Boris Papandopulo, Kunc's Nokturno, Moussorgsky's Images, Dora Pejačević's opus et al.[2]

References

1. Pofuk, Branimir. Lorkovićevo lječilište za čitave nacije Večernji list. Published 23 September 2012. Acces date 24 October 2015.
2. Melita Lorković Entry in Croatian encyclopedia. Acces date 8 November 2019.