Risto Savin Risto Savin (

Žalec Žalec (; german: Sachsenfeld''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 44.) is a town in central Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipalit ...

, July 11, 1859 –

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, December 15, 1948), born Fridrich Širca, was a Slovenian composer. He is one of the composers credited with creating a Slovenian national tradition of opera. Risto Savin was a pseudonym adopted by Fridrich Širca, a general in the army. He studied composition with

Robert Fuchs Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in ...

in Vienna and became notable as one of the composers of Slovenian-language opera. His opera ''Lepa Vida'' (Lovely Vida, 1907) is one of the Slovenian operas to show the influence of

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

.Jim Samson ''Cambridge History of Music'' 2001 "Slovenian composers well into the twentieth century developed a cosmopolitan late Romantic idiom influenced by Brahms and Dvorak and occasionally, as in Risto Savin's 1907 opera Lepa Vida (Lovely Vida), by Wagner" The house where Risto Savin was born in

is now a museum.

Works

Operas * ''Poslednja straža'' (Last Watch, 1898) * ''Lepa Vida'' (Pretty Vida, 1907) * ''Gosposvetski sen'' (1921) * ''Matija Gubec'' (1923) Ballets * ''Plesna legendica'' (1918) * ''Čajna punčka'' (The Tea Girl, 1922) Songs * "Pismo" (The Letter,

Oton Župančič Oton Župančič (January 23, 1878 – June 11, 1949, pseudonym ''Gojko'') was a Slovene poet, translator, and playwright. He is regarded, alongside Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. ...

) * "To je tako" (Oton Župančič) * "Svetla noč" (Oton Župančič) * "Marica" (Oton Župančič) * "Ljubica, zdaj je dan" (Anton Aškerc)

Selected recordings

* Music for cello and piano ''Grieg, Savin, Martinu, Pucihar'' Nikolaj Sajko and pianist Miha Haas.

References

1859 births 1948 deaths Slovenian classical composers Slovenian male musicians Male classical composers People from the Municipality of Žalec Composers from Austria-Hungary {{Slovenia-composer-stub