Blaž Arnič
Blaž Arnič (31 January 1901 – 1 February 1970) was a Slovenian symphonic composer. Born in Luče, Lower Styria, Austria-Hungary, Arnič grew up on an isolated farmstead near Mount Raduha in the Kamnik Alps. He taught himself how to play the accordion, and at the age of nineteen moved to Ljubljana to study music. Life Arnič studied composing at the Ljubljana Conservatory, and later (1930-1932) at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium, New Vienna Conservatory, under the tutelage of Professor Rudolf Nilius, with advanced composition in Warsaw, Kraków and Paris (1938-1939). He taught music at Bol, Croatia, Bol on the island of Brač, Croatia (1934-1935) and in Ljubljana in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (1940-1943). Arnič joined the Communist Party in 1941 and started collaborating with the Liberation Front.
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