Nikša Gligo (6 April 1946 – 10 February 2024) was a Croatian
musicologist
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and academic.
Biography
Nikša Gligo was born in
Split
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Arts, enter ...
,
PR Croatia
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,
FPR Yugoslavia
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on 6 April 1946.
His scientific interests included 20th-century music, music terminology, the
aesthetics of music
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, and
music semiology Music semiology (semiotics) is the study of signs as they pertain to music on a variety of levels.
Overview
Following Roman Jakobson, Kofi Agawu adopts the idea of musical semiosis being introversive or extroversive—that is, musical signs within ...
.
He has been involved with the
Music Biennale Zagreb
Music Biennale Zagreb (, MBZ) is an international festival of contemporary classical music, contemporary music in Zagreb, Croatia, organized by the Croatian Composers' Society. The wikt:biennale, Biennale, founded by Milko Kelemen and held every s ...
in various capacities from 1973 to 1991 and from 2002.
He served as the art director of the 10th Biennale in 1979.
He was a full member of the
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , HAZU) is the national academy of Croatia.
HAZU was founded under the patronage of the Croatian bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer under the name Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (, JAZU) since its ...
from 2006
and a member of section Musicology & History of Art & Architecture of the
Academia Europaea
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from 2014. Gligo died on 10 February 2023, at the age of 77.
Preminuo muzikolog Nikša Gligo, jedan od vodećih stručnjaka za suvremenu hrvatsku glazbu
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1946 births
2024 deaths
Croatian musicologists
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Writers from Split, Croatia
University of Ljubljana alumni
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni
Academy of Music, University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Members of Academia Europaea
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