Mirko Dorner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mirko Dorner

Hungarian musician

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1921

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 02-May-2004

Profession: musician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Mirko Dorner (March 7, 1921, Budapest – May 2, 2004, Essen) was a German-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.