Dr. Victor Urbancic or Viktor Ernest Johann von Urbantschitsch was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and music scholar from Vienna. He studied in Vienna, completing a doctorate in musicology at the University of Vienna. His early career was spent at the Stadttheater Mainz, and at the Graz Conservatory, where he was teacher and director of the opera studio, as well as lecturing in musicology at the University of Graz. His wife, Melitta, came from a Jewish family and thus Urbancic, along with his wife and three children, emigrated to Iceland in 1938. Urbancic stayed for the second half of his life in Iceland and had a major influence on the music development in the country at the time.
