Luka Sorkočević

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Luka Sorkočević (also Luca Sorgo) (1734-1789) was a Croatian composer. He was also the composer of the first symphony written in Dubrovnik, and author of the earliest Croatian (pre-classicist) symphonies, extraordinary accomplishments of music, he began musical formation in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), that it would soon complete in the city of Rome, where he studied composition with Rinaldo di Capua. As its diplomat (he was ambassador of Dubrovnik before the imperial curt of Vienna), Sorkočević had the opportunity to travel by all Europe and to know the most outstanding composers of its time (of Gluck to Haydn), experience that would take advantage of from 1787 like person in charge of the teatral representations. With serious problems of health, a day of 1789 committed suicide throwing itself to the emptiness from the third floor of his palace of Dubrovnik (nowadays, it calls to account episcopal). equal to the best European pre-classicist works of the sort. The music of Sorkočević has been conserved, like the one of other members of his family, in the archives of the Franciscan Convent of Dubrovnik. Although it also wrote pair of vocal pieces, the most interesting of his production are his eight symphonies in three times-, their sonata for continuous violin and and its overture-trio for flaute, continuous violin and, all of them collections in this disc. Music that is to half of way between the baroque world and the classic.

Sorkočević's works remain some of the most popular in Croatia. An art school in Dubrovnik currently bears his name.