Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdcv1ry
THE COOPERATION OF ACADEMICIAN LOVRO ŽUPANOVIĆ AND CONDUCTOR VLADIMIR KRANJČEVIĆ AT THE VARAŽDIN BAROQUE EVENINGS FESTIVAL
ENNIO STIPČEVIĆ
Abstract
This article provides an insight into the cooperation of musicologist Lovro Županović
and conductor Vladimir Kranjčević at the Varaždin Baroque Evenings festival.
This cooperation lasted for nearly three decades (1971 – 1999) and was one of
the most significant projects promoting early Croatian music at the time. Županović
studied, discovered and transcribed works by little known Croatian composers,
and Kranjčević staged them at the Varaždin Baroque Evenings, as evidenced from
numerous published records and twelve volumes in the series of music editions
entitled Monuments of the Croatian Musical Past, edited by Županović. As the director
of the Varaždin Baroque Evenings, conductor Vladimir Kranjčević embraced
the concept of openness to various interpretative aesthetics. Moreover, the Baroque
Evenings frequently featured repertoire from the 16th up to the early 19th
century. Thus, Županović was in a position to prepare sheet music for contemporary
Varaždin premieres of pieces by composers such as Wisner von Morgenstern
and Leopold Ebner, as well as the vocal oeuvre by the preeminent Croatian master
of Renaissance polyphony, Julije Skjavetić. In adition, a number of professional and
scholarly conferences were attached to the festival, and Županović also staged several
concerts in cooperation with his Zagreb musicology students. There is no doubt
that the first thirty years of the Varaždin Baroque Evenings were marked by the
cooperation between Županović and Kranjčević.
Keywords
musicologist Lovro Županović; director Vladimir Kranjčević; Varaždin Baroque Music festival; presentation of the Croatian musical heritage.
Hrčak ID:
289709
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Publication date:
28.12.2022.
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