Slavko Osterc (17 June 1895 – 23 May 1941), was a
Slovenian composer.
Osterc was born in
Veržej
Veržej () is a settlement in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Veržej. It lies on the right bank of the Mura River. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Mura St ...
. He studied under
Emerik Beran
Emerik Beran (17 October 1868 – 10 March 1940) was a Slovenian composer and cellist
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin fam ...
, 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,
Vítězslav Novák
Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important e ...
, and
Alois Hába. Osterc was a professor at the
Ljubljana Conservatory
Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana ( sl, Akademija za glasbo Univerze v Ljubljani) is the main junior conservatory in Slovenia. The school has its origin in the Music School of the Slovene Philharmonic Society (founded 1821, indirectl ...
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
Henri Murger
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger (27 March 1822 – 28 January 1861), was a French novelist and poet.
He is chiefly distinguished as the author of the 1851 book ''Scènes de la vie de bohème'' (Scenes of Bohemi ...
, 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;
symphonic poem
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term ''T ...
, 1940)
;Other
*Various works for voice; piano works;
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
.
References
Further reading
*
Don Randel, ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music''. Harvard, 1996, p. 656.
External links
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1895 births
1941 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Slovenian opera composers
Male opera composers
Pupils of Leoš Janáček
Pupils of Vítězslav Novák
Slovenian classical composers
Slovenian male musicians
Male classical composers
People from the Municipality of Veržej
20th-century male musicians