Education
Stančić was educated in piano in Zagreb and then moved to Berlin where he took private piano lessons, and learned composition from Ferruccio Busoni.
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Stančić was educated in piano in Zagreb and then moved to Berlin where he took private piano lessons, and learned composition from Ferruccio Busoni.
Stančić had a career as a concert pianist, and later he became a piano teacher at the Music Academy in Zagreb. Some of his notable students included Ivo Maček and Vladimir Krpan. The International Piano Competition Svetislav Stančić is named after him.
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]
He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.