Josip Štolcer-Slavenski

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Josip Štolcer-Slavenski (May 11, 1896 - November 30, 1955) was a Croatian composer. He was born in Čakovec, Austria-Hungary (present day Croatia) into the Štolcer family. Here he attended elementary school but later studied music in the class of Zoltán Kodály in Budapest and Vítězslav Novák in Prague. He also studied in Paris, France.

1 Career
2 Opus
3 Međimurje songs
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Career

Štolcer started his career as a music teacher in Zagreb in 1923 but soon, in 1924, he moved to Belgrade where he had better conditions to work and live. Like another Yugoslavian composer, Jakov Gotovac, he was a national romantic whose work was strongly influenced by regional and national heritage. The sounds of home, its own history and heritage were in his works masterfully expressed new sequence of universal time. He observed the sound heritage of the cultures of the east, hoping to find the environments unchanged by the influence of the modern world. Josip Štolcer's Memorial Collection, established in 1965, contains original manuscripts and scores, tapes and records, as well as numerous other objects and musical instruments from the composer's home.

[edit] Opus

His best works are incorporated in a symphony named Simfonija Orienta (Symphony of the Orient) for solists, choir and orchestra as well as in another symphony Balkanofonija (Symphony of the Balkans). Further he composed piano concertos, violin sonatas, string quartets, and solos; his best-known choir songs are Voda zvira and Romarska.