Stanojlo Rajičić (

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, 16 December 1910 – 21 July 2000) was a

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n composer and musicologist. A member of the

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''Prague group'' generation of Serbian composers along with other colleagues such as

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or Milan Ristić, he studied in the Belgrade Music School and the Stanković Music School, and later in the

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under Rudolf Karel. He was also a disciple of Josef Suk in the Master School of Composition before returning to Belgrade in 1936. As a teacher he worked in the Belgrade Academy of Music from 1940 and directed its Composition and Orchestration department, retiring in 1977. His disciples include Petar Bergamo,

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, Zoran Hristić,

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, Mirjana Sistek-Djordjevic, and

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, who was his first biographer (''Stvaralački put Stanojla Rajičića'', 1971). Rajičić was a member of the

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since 1958 and received the

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(1966),

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(1968), the

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(1975) and the

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(1987).

Music

Orchestral music had a central role in his output, including six symphonies, four

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s on Serbian folk epics (all written during

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) and ten

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s, making him one of the most devoted Yugoslav composers to this genre. The 1946 Violin Concerto No. 2 and the 1950 Piano Concerto No. 3 are considered his best works in his entry in The New Grove Dictionary. He was the first Serbian composer to write concertos for instruments such as the clarinet and the bassoon, as well as song cycles for voice and orchestra. During his student years in Prague he assimilated to an extent the

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avantgarde of the time, though he wasn't interested in

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nor Hába's

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. However following his return to Belgrade, he mellowed his style due to his desire for communication while facing a much more conservative musical scene into a mild modernism within traditional styles which received the approval of the Yugoslav audience and establishment. Following a short period where he had to follow the socialist realist directives initially assumed by the

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he was able to drive his style into a final synthesis period.Vasić, Aleksandar.
Stanojlo Rajičić (1910-2000)
'. ''Komunicacija''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rajičić, Stanojlo 1910 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Serbian composers Musicians from Belgrade Academic staff of the University of Arts in Belgrade Herder Prize recipients Prague Conservatory alumni