Original scientific paper

Žiga Hirschler's Music Criticism

Marina Tutavac ; Split, Croatia

Abstract

Žiga Hirschler was a Croatian composer and music critic who worked between the Two World Wars in Zagreb, Croatia. As a composer he was a minor representative of nationalism in music and as a music critic he was a prominent representative of ideological-utilitarian music criticism. His reviews, essays and interviews were published in all the prominent newspapers and magazines in Zagreb and helped shape and document the town music culture in the 1920s and 1930s. This paper includes Hirschler’s biography, an overview of music criticism in Zagreb between the Two World Wars, as well as detailed analyses of his criticism and his confrontation with Marxist music criticism representatives, Pavao Markovac and Zlatko Grgošević. This paper is the shorter version of my undergraduate thesis in Musicology at the Academy of Music of Zagreb University. It is also the first comprehensive overview of Hirschler’s work in the field of music criticism ever to be published.

Keywords

Žiga Hirschler; music criticism; Croatia; 20th century; Jews in Croatia

Hrčak ID:

143643

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/143643

Publication date:

30.5.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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