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https://doi.org/10.59323/k.14.2.6

The Composer Slavko Modrijan and His Legacy – A Unique Example of the Gathering of Croatian Writers and Musicians Around the Concern for the Musical Education of Children and Youth, Based on the Magazine Proljeće and the Music Collection Jaglaci (1939 – 1945)

Eva Kirchmayer Bilić orcid id orcid.org/0009-0005-6184-6987 ; Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

For the first time, this article presents the Croatian composer and conductor Slavko Modrijan (Lukovdol, 1909- Zagreb, 1985), and the poets whose poetry was composed by some of Croatia's most significant composers, and the compositions that were included in the children's music magazine Proljeće and the music-collection/book Jaglaci, collected, edited, and published by Modrijan from 1939 to 1945. Modrijan gathered and encouraged the most significant Croatian composers of that time to set poems/verses suitable for school children and youth to music. Slavko Modrijan was a composer and music teacher, and from 1941 to 1945 the conductor of the children's choir 'Proljeće' on Hrvatski krugoval (Croatian Radio). He served nearly ten months in the Stara Gradiška prison in 1946. Although he worked as a teacher and director of a music school in Bjelovar from 1947 and as a high school professor in Slavonski Brod from 1957, his legacy remains unknown. By discovering the works of Slavko Modrijan, the names of numerous other Croatian writers are also discovered and revealed after decades of oblivion.

Keywords

Croatian music periodicals until 1945; Jaglaci; Proljeće; Christian poetry in the music/compositions of Slavko Modrijan

Hrčak ID:

312157

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/312157

Publication date:

23.12.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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