Fahri Beqiri (born 1936) was an
Albanian
Albanian may refer to:
*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
**Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
composer and professor at the
University of Prishtina Department of Music.
Education
Beqiri was born in
Yugoslavia and graduated composition from the
University of Arts in Belgrade
The University of Arts in Belgrade ( sr-cyr, Универзитет уметности у Београду, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu) is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies. ...
,
Serbia, where he studied in the class of eminent Serbian composer
Enriko Josif
Enriko Josif ( sr-cyr, Eнрико Јосиф; 1 May 1924 – 13 March 2003) was a Serbian composer, pedagogue and musical writer, and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Biography
He was born on May 1, 1924 in Belgrade into a Se ...
.
Compositions
Beqiri was considered to be one of the most important Yugoslav composers of Albanian ethnicity. He wrote compositions for
symphony orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...
,
choir, piano,
clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound.
Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
,
wind quintet, film theatre and ballet music, popular music, songs in
folk tradition,
popular music, many pieces for children, etc. His compositions were performed by eminent Serbian and
Yugoslav musicians, including
Milenko Stefanović
Milenko Stefanović (19 February 1930 – 25 July 2022) was a Serbian classical and jazz clarinetist. He was a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow, Munich, Geneva and Prague, and achieved an international career as a soloist. ...
,
Ernest Ačkun
Ernest Ačkun (Ернест Ачкун) (March 27, 1930 – September 28, 2001) was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav clarinetist.
Early life
Ernest Ačkun was born in Hrastnik, Slovenia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
He completed his s ...
,
Miodrag Azanjac and
Zorica Dimitrijević-Stošić
Zorica Dimitrijević-Stošić (3 February 1934, in Smederevo – 13 February 2013, in Belgrade) was a Serbian pianist and accompanist. She was a professor of piano at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
Education
She graduated from the Belgrade Mus ...
.
Teaching activities
Beqiri taught
Counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more musical lines (or voices) which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. It has been most commonly identified in the European classical tradi ...
at the
University of Pristina Faculty of Arts for thirty years.
References
Fahri Beqiri's works Retrieved on 11 August 2009
Discography of Fahri Beqiri Retrieved on 11 August 2009
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Serbian composers
Yugoslav musicians
Academic staff of the University of Pristina
University of Arts in Belgrade alumni
Living people
1936 births
Yugoslav Albanians