Arti musices, Vol. 39 No. 1, 2008.
Original scientific paper
The Croatian Composer Ivan Zajc in the History of Bulgarian Musical Culture (An Attempt at a Brief Chronography)
Stefanka Georgieva
orcid.org/0000-0001-6229-0160
; Pedagogical Faculty, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Abstract
The fruitful musical relations between the Croatian and Bulgarian peoples in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, were particularly marked by the activity of the Croatian composer Ivan Zajc.
The study is an attempt to provide a brief chronography of Ivan Zajc's creative presence in the period of formation of the Bulgarian national composers' school. The performances of his works and their editions in Bulgaria at the time, as well as the role and meaning of the Zagreb Music School of the Music Institute - while Zajc was its director - have been researched and presented in the paper. Zajc was also the winner of the First Bulgarian Music Competition (1894) and the author of the hymn of the First Bulgarian Singing Society (Plovdiv, 1896). Some melodies of his marches written after the words of famous Bulgarian poets represent the national fight for liberation and are often considered Bulgarian in origin.
Keywords
Ivan Zajc; history of music; Bulgaria; Croatia; 19th century
Hrčak ID:
24715
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Publication date:
2.6.2008.
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