Mirko Dorner

Mirko Dorner

Mirko Dorner (Budapest, March 7, 1921; Essen, May 2, 2004) was a Hungarian cellist, composer and painter, raised in Belgrade.

Dorner was trained at the Belgrade Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (1939-42). He then returned to Belgrade, teaching at its Conservatory before settling in 1954 in Germany as the cello soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic and a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. In the meantime Dorner won the 1949 Concours de Geneve and the 1952 Vercelli's Viotti competition.

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