Atanazije Jurjević, signed himself as ''Jurjevich-Dalmata'' (Latin: ''Athanasius Georgiceus'', German: ''Athanasius Georgijević''; c.1590 – c.1640) was a Croatian
baroque composer, writer and diplomat. He was born into a well-known
patrician
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family from
Split
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Arts, entertai ...
.
He studied in Split and at ''Ferdinandeum'' in
Graz (1609–1611). He served as
''Consiliarius'' (advisor) of
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and travelled to
Poland
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, Russia and
Bosnia.
His most known work is titled "Pisni za naypoglavitiye, naysvetiye i nayveselye dni svega godischia sloxene: i kakose u Organe s'yednim glasom mogu spivati, napravgliene", a collection of
compositions published in 1635.
Work
*Od naslidovanya Isukarstova kgnighe cetvereNaslidovanje Isukrstovo (Beč, 1629.), prepjev na hrvatski znane knjige Tome Kempenskoga
Knjižnice grada Zagreba
Thomas a Kempis: Od naszleduvanya Kristussevoga: knige chetiri
*Prilike i promišljenja sarca človičanskoga (1633.)
*Naslidovanja duhovna (1633.)
*Nastojanja duhovna u kojih se uzdarži način kako bi moga dobar karstjanin svaki dan, i u koje vrime, BOGA i stvorca svoga moliti, i inimi molitvami i pisni B. D. Marije, i ostalih svetih, a navlastito na poglavite blagdane, duhovno i korisno sebe zabaviti. Skupljena i složena po Atanasiju Georgiceu. Pritiskano u Beču, po Mateu Formiku. Lito Gospodina našega Isukarsta M. D C. XXXIII.
References
Bibliography
*Ennio Stipčević: ‘Habent sua fata libelli: “Pisni” (1635) Atanazija Jurjevića’, Arti musices, xxvi (1995), str. 65–72
*J. Mantuani: ‘Hrvatska crkvena pjesmarica iz god. 1635’, Sveta Cecilija, ix (1915)
István György Tóth: Na putu kroz Slavoniju pod krinkom (1626.). Putovanje dalmatinskog humanista Atanazija Jurjevića (Georgiceo) – novi rukopis i nova interpretacija(Scrinia Slavonica, Vol.3 No.1 Studeni 2003.)
*Alfred Baumgartner: Propyläen Welt der Musik Band 2, 1989, , S. 417
External links
Biography
(in Croatian)
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Croatian Baroque composers
Croatian musicians
Renaissance composers
16th-century Croatian people
17th-century Croatian people
Male classical composers