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List Of Croatian Composers
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This is a list of Croatian composers. References * Croatian Composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Classical music, Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Antico
Andrea Antico (also Andrea Antico da Montona, Anticho, Antiquo) (c. 1480 – after 1538) was a music printer, editor, publisher and composer of the Renaissance born in the Republic of Venice, of Istrian birth, active in Rome and in Venice. He was the first printer of sacred music in Rome, and the earliest competitor of Venetian Ottaviano Petrucci, who is regarded as the first significant music printer. Life Antico was born in Montona, Istria in the Republic of Venice (today Motovun in Croatia). His ethnicity is not known; fifteenth century Montona had a mixed population of Italians and Croats. Little documentation has yet come to light regarding his early life, but he may have been active in the diocese of Parenzo (now Poreč) in Istria, based on a papal letter of 1516 which called him a "cleric of the diocese of Parenzo, now living in Rome".Picker, Grove His first publication dates from 1510, and was a collection of frottole. Like Petrucci, whose similar ''Odhecaton'' h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Kiš
Ivana Kiš (born 2 March 1979 in Zagreb) is a Croatian composer of classical music, electronic music and music theatre. Kiš finished her bachelor composition studies with (2002), and her master studies in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk and Diderik Wagenaar (2006). Kiš' compositions have been performed by many ensembles such as Asko Ensemble, Maarten Altena Ensemble, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Wind Ensemble and The Croatian Television Symphonic Orchestra. With Tomislav Oliver, Kiš composed the music for ''Kraljevi bogova'', a ballet choreographed by Pascal Touzeau, performed for the first time in Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb in 2015, as a part of the 28th Music Biennale Zagreb. The entire body of Kiš' work connects music with drama or visual elements. In the last few years her career is developing in the direction of creating music theatre performances. Since 2007, Kiš lives in Israel, where she teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Rosenberg-Ružić
Vjekoslav Rosenberg-Ružić (April 29, 1870 – February 16, 1954) was a Croatian-Jewish composer, conductor and music educator. Rosenberg-Ružić was born in Varaždin as Alois Rosenberg on April 29, 1870. Later in life he added the Croatian variant of his surname, Ružić. From early childhood he was in contact with the music, duo to a fact that his father Josip Rosenberg was a music teacher. Rosenberg-Ružić finished elementary and high school in his hometown. He studied violin, piano, and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, in Vienna. In 1891, Rosenberg-Ružić went to Split, where he taught music and led the choir in the local "Croatian singing society". Rosenberg-Ružić stayed in Split for 4 years, he then returned to Varaždin, where he was organist as in Split. In Varaždin, he continued educational work in the field of music, and started to compose. By the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia provincial government decision in 1909, Rosenberg-Ruži ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Pucić-Sorkočević
Countess Elena Pucić-Sorkočević, also Elena Pozza-Sorgo (c. 1784–1865) was the first female composer in the Republic of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik), located in today's southern Croatia. She was born Elena Lujza Ranjina, and married Nikola Lucijan Pucić-Sorkočević (1772–1855). They had two children: Marina, who married Matej Natali and Lucijan Pucić-Sorkočević. After the fall of the Republic, musical performances were mostly held in private houses of the noble families. Elena was the first female in Croatia whose compositions have been preserved She has a total of 6 completed compositions, one of them in sketches that are kept at the Franciscan monastery in Dubrovnik. Her compositions were not meant for concert works but rather epistles written to loved ones as expressions of her spirit. See also *House of Pucić *Sorkočević family The House of Sorgo (in Italian) or Sorkočević (in Serbo-Croatian) was the name of a noble family of the Republic of Ragusa. Name Known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragan Plamenac
Dragan Plamenac (born Dragan Siebenschein; 8 February 189515 March 1983) was a Croatian Jewish composer and musicologist. Plamenac was born as Karl Siebenschein in Zagreb on 8 February 1895. His father, Robert Siebenschein, and grandfather, Josip Siebenschein, were leaders of the Israelites Zagreb community. His father was also the president of Croatian Music Institute from 1919 to 1929. Plamenac graduated at the law school of the University of Zagreb. He studied composition with Franz Schreker in Vienna in 1912-13 and with Vítězslav Novák in Prague in 1919. He studied musicology with André Pirro at the Sorbonne in Paris and in 1925 completed his doctoral dissertation on motets and chansons by Johannes Ockeghem, supervised by Guido Adler at the Universität Wien. From the time of his stay in Paris, he had close contacts with Geneviève Thibault de Chambure (Comtesse de Chambure) and Nanie Bridgman oth well-known French musicologists from his generation who also stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Pejačević
Countess Maria Theodora Paulina (Dora) Pejačević ( hu, Gróf verőczei Pejácsevich Mária Theodóra Paulina "Dóra", link=no, 10 September 1885 – 5 March 1923) was a Croatian composer and a member of the Pejačević noble family. She was one of the composers to introduce the orchestral song to Croatian music and her Symphony in F-sharp minor is considered by scholars to be the first modern symphony in Croatian music. Early life Dora Pejačević (in old documents also Pejacsevich) was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, the daughter of a Croatian ban, Hungarian-Croatian Count Teodor Pejačević of Virovitica and Hungarian Baroness Elisabeth Josepha (1860–1941), herself a fine pianist. Her mother was the first to give her piano lessons. Paternally, she descended from the old Croatian noble Pejačević family, one of the most distinguished noble families in Slavonia, the eastern region of Croatia. Her maternal family was, for centuries intermarried with Counts Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Papandopulo
Boris Papandopulo (February 25, 1906 – October 16, 1991) was a Croatian composer and conductor of Greek and Russian Jewish descent. Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Djela hrvatskih skladatelja Židovskog podrijetla u Beču; stranica 38; broj 107, studeni / prosinac 2008. He was the son of Greek nobleman Konstantin Papandopulo and Croatian opera singer Maja Strozzi-Pečić and one of the most distinctive Croatian musicians of the 20th century. Papandopulo also worked as music writer, journalist, reviewer, pianist and piano accompanist; however, he achieved the peaks of his career in music as a composer. His composing oeuvre is imposing (counting cca 460 works): with great success he created instrumental (orchestral, concertante, chamber and solo), vocal and instrumental (for solo voice and choir), stage music and film music. In all these kinds and genres he left a string of anthology-piece compositions of great artistic value. Biography “Born, growing up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Matetić Ronjgov
Ivan Matetić Ronjgov (10 April 1880 – 27 June 1960) was an Istrian composer. Ivan Matetić was born in Rojnići, a village in present-day Croatia, from which he took his nickname "Ronjgov". He discovered the pattern of the music of the Istrian region, theoretically explaining the essence of this natural music and pinpointed the "Istrian scale" – a series of six tones and half-tones. On the basis of this discovery, Matetić was able to document the folk songs of the Istrian region, to harmonize their notes, and finally to compose music in the same spirit. He left a large number of musical notations from Istria Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ... and the Croatian seaside. He harmonized and arranged over one hundred songs. His most significant compositional op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Lukačić
Marko Ivan Lukačić (''Lucacich'' or ''Lucacih'','' Fr. Joannes de Sibinico'') (Šibenik, baptized 7 April 1587Note in the birth register of the Šibenik parish says: "D(ie) VII Aprillis (1587) Marchus filius ioannis lucacich baptizatus fuit per me pres(byteru)m mateum bubrigouich in baptiserio divi Jacobi. D(ominus) G. Rabglagnin et d(omina) Filipa uxor D. Nicholai Semunich levaverunt eum de sacr fonte". – Split, September 20, 1648) was a Croatian-born musician and composer of the Renaissance and early Baroque. Biography Lukačić's exact date of birth is unknown; in 1587 he was baptised in Šibenik where it is believed he was born. Ten years later he entered the Franciscan order when he accepted his monastic name Ivan. In 1600 he was sent to Italy where he studied theology and music. In 1612 he has signed himself as ''baccalaureus'', while on 23 March 1615 he was awarded in Rome the degree of ''Magister Musices'' ''(master of music)''. In 1614 he participated as ''maestro di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nada Ludvig-Pečar
Nada Ludvig-Pečar (May 12, 1929 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 31 March 2008 in Vienna, Austria) was a Bosnian composer.Milin She was a student of Miroslav Špiler and Lucijan Marija Škerjanc. Starting in 1969 she taught music theory at the Sarajevo Music Academy. She was also co-author of several music text books. She retired as Professor of The Science of Musical Forms, from the Sarajevo Academy of Music in the 1990s. Her music is mainly modernist, and she excelled in the solo song repertory. References *Melita Milin. "Nada Ludwig-Pečar", ''Grove Music Online ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...'', ed. L. Macy (accessed November 25, 2006)grovemusic.com(subscription access). *http://www.projectopus.com/nada_ludvig_pecar Bosnia International Music Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdo Livadić
Ferdo Livadić (Ferdinand Wiesner) (30 May 1799 – 8 January 1879) was a Croatian composer. Livadić was born in Celje, in present-day Slovenia. A leader of the 19th-century Croatian national revival, he wrote the tune for '' Još Hrvatska ni propala'', the anthem of the Illyrian movement. He frequently invited many of the movement's most important members, together with such celebrities as Franz Liszt, to his property at Samobor. He also composed numerous art songs in Croatian, Slovenian, and German, as well as marches, dances and scherzi for piano. Probably the best of these piano works is a ''Nocturne'' in F sharp minor. His work prepared the way for the nationalist Croatian composers Vatroslav Lisinski and Ivan Zajc. He died, aged 79, in Samobor Samobor () is a city in Zagreb County, Croatia. It is part of the Zagreb metropolitan area. Administratively it is a part of Zagreb County. Geography Samobor is located west of Zagreb, between the eastern slopes of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vatroslav Lisinski
Vatroslav Lisinski (, 8 July 1819 – 31 May 1854) was a Croatian composer. Lisinski was born Ignatius Fuchs to a German Jewish family. He would later change his name to Vatroslav Lisinski, which is a Croatian calque of his original name. For a time he worked as a clerk at the Tabula Banalis in Zagreb. Lisinski composed the first Croatian opera, '' Love and Malice'' (1846), which he wrote at the urging of Alberto Ognjen Štriga, and '' Porin'' (1851) as well as numerous works for orchestra, choir and soloists. The Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall is named after him. He was also one of the founders of Illyrism, a movement that advocated the importance of Croatian and more generally South Slavic cultural heritage, as a reaction to Magyarisation during the Austro-Hungarian rule. Lisinski died in Zagreb on 31 May 1854 and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery The Mirogoj City Cemetery (, hr, Gradsko groblje Mirogoj), also known as Mirogoj Cemetery ( hr, Groblje Mirogoj), is a cemet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
