Arti musices, Vol. 45 No. 1, 2014.
Original scientific paper
Ivo Tijardović - the First Croatian Film Composer for Foreign Producers?
Irena Paulus
orcid.org/0000-0003-4375-2352
; Art School Franjo Lučić, Velika Gorica, Croatia
Abstract
The composer, conductor, writer, painter and designer, Ivo Tijardović (1895-1976), wrote film scores on several occasions during his lifetime. In the book Music from the Screen, I listed his film scores, counting eight scores for feature films, four scores for documentaries and one for animated film. Korallenprinzessin and In Banner Kaiser Diokletians were among the eight feature films. I listed them, but without any data — since I found only the names of the films in an old book written by Krešimir Kovačević, the only author who ever mentioned them. Daniel Rafaelić’s and Leon Rizmaul’s recent research in Berlin finished with re-discovery of these two films, both made in 1937 by the crew sent by German Tobis Studio (In Banner Kaiser Diokletians was the working title for Lied der Adria). Since the first short sound film in Croatia appeared in 1937, these two films, which were both made in Yugoslavia — with strong support from the Yugoslavian government in the hope that they will also serve as tourism propaganda — changed the historical perspective of Croatian film music. It seems that Tijardović, besides Eduard Gloz, who wrote music for the Croatian first short sound film, Šešir [The Hat], was the first Croatian composer who wrote music for sound films. However, both films were produced by a German film studio — in fact, it was a kind of German-Yugoslavian co-production — but they gave Tijardović an opportunity to start an art form which, at that time in Croatia, did not exist.
Keywords
Ivo Tijardović; Croatian film music; sound film; Korallenprinzessin; Lied der Adria; film score; film song; Tobis; film opereta
Hrčak ID:
127439
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2014.
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