Victor Urbancic

Dr. Victor Urbancic or Viktor Ernest Johann von Urbantschitsch (9 August 1903 – 4 April 1958) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and music scholar from Vienna.

Urbancic stayed for the second half of his life in Iceland and had a big influence[1] on the music development in the country at the time.

Urbancic worked as teacher and director of the opera studio at the Conservatory of Graz before he came to Iceland in 1938.

He became music director of the Icelandic National Theater in Reykjavík.

A recent book by Icelandic musicologist Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, Music at World’s End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland, discusses Urbancic’s life and career in detail.