Anđelko Klobučar (11 July 1931 – 7 August 2016), was a Croatian composer,

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and music pedagogue. Born in

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, Klobučar studied at the Zagreb Academy of Music and later in

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and

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, where he studied composition with

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. His older brother

Berislav Klobučar Berislav Klobučar (28 August 192413 June 2014) was a Croatian opera conductor. He conducted the Vienna State Opera for more than four decades, and guest conductor at the Bayreuth Festival. __TOC__ Biography Born in Zagreb on 28 August 1924, Klo ...

became successful conductor. Anđelko became titular organist of the

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in 1958 and played until 2004. From 1987 he shared this position with Hvalimira Bledšnajder. He worked as the organ professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music for only two years, 1972 and 1973. His organ students were Hvalimira Bledšnajder (1972), Jesenka Tješić (1972) and Krešimir Galin (1973). He was awarded the

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for Life Achievement in Music in 1995 and the Porin Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. Klobučar was a full member of the

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since 1992.

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Akademik Anđelko Klobučar

at hdu.hr
Anđelko Klobučar
at film.hr

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* 1931 births 2016 deaths Croatian organists Male organists Croatian film score composers Croatian male film score composers Musicians from Zagreb Academy of Music, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Vladimir Nazor Award winners Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery {{Croatia-composer-stub

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