Slavko Osterc (17 June 1895 – 23 May 1941), was a Slovenian composer. Osterc was born in

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. He studied under

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, who was a pupil of Leoš Janáček, in his youth before attending the Prague Conservatory from 1925 to 1927. While there he studied under Karel Boleslav Jirák,

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, and Alois Hába. Osterc was a professor at the

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for much of his career, remaining there until his death. He was much the leading composer of Slovenia in the 1930s, as Marij Kogoj had been in the 1920s.Vlado Kotnik - Opera, power and ideology: anthropological study of a national art 2010 -p97 "The interwar generation of Slovenian opera composers was characterized by an eclectic range of styles, from Romanticism to modernism. The 1920s were dominated by the Expressionist composer Marij Kogoj,60 a pupil of Schoenberg and the 1930s.. Slavko Osterc" One of his pupils was Pavel Šivic.

Works

''Note: This list is incomplete.'' ;Operas *''Krst pri Savici'' (The Baptism on the Savica, after France Prešeren's '' The Baptism on the Savica'', 1921) *''Osveta'' (after Theodor Körner, 1923) *''Iz komične opere'' (From the Comic Opera, after

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, 1928) *''Krog s kredo'' (The Chalk Circle, after Klabund, 1928/29) *''Saloma'' (Salome, 1929/30) *''Dandin v vicah'' (Dandin in Purgatory, after Molière and Hans Sachs, 1930) *''Medea'' (after Euripides), 1930 ;Ballets *''Iz Satanovega Dnevnika'' (From Satan's Diary, 1924) *''Maska rdeče smrti'' (The Masque of the Red Death, 1930) *''Illusions'' (1938–40) ;Orchestral *The Baptism on the Savica ( symphonic picture, 1921) *Bagatelles (1922) *Symphony (1922) *Suite (1929) *Concerto for Orchestra (1932) *''Ouverture classique'' (1932) *Concerto (1933) *''Passacaglia and Chorale'' (1934) *''Danses'' (1935) *''Mouvements symphoniques'' (1936) *''4 pieces symphoniques'' (1938–39) *''Mati'' (Mother;

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, 1940) ;Other *Various works for voice; piano works;

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