Arti musices, Vol. 44 No. 1, 2013.
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On Certain Franjo Kuhač's Relations with Bulgaria: an Attempt at Reconstruction based on Epistolary and Historiographic Documents
Stefanka Georgieva
; Trakijsko sveučilište, Pedagoški fakultet, Stara Zagora, Bugarska
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The historical memory of the Bulgarians keeps alive a number of names of prominent writers of the Croatian National Revival and figures of more recent times. Franjo Kuhač is one of them. After over a century, his collections Južno-slovjenske narodne popievke are regarded as a source of valuable information about music culture from the epoch of the Bulgarian National Revival. However, no special research is needed to establish that Kuhač’s personality, and his entire scientific heritage, is known rather fragmentarily in Bulgaria, even to that limited circle of musicologists who take an interest in him.
This paper is an attempt at reconstructing some of the Croatian musicologist’s personal and professional connections with Bulgaria, based on letters from his correspondence unpublished as yet, as well as on historiographic documents from Bulgarian public records of the last two decades of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. They developed in the circles of the Bulgarian students’ colony in Zagreb and give an idea of the wide range of contacts that Kuhač established with Bulgarian intellectuals and educational and musical institutions after the liberation of the country from the Ottoman yoke.
At the same time, his correspondence indicates the ways in which not only his collections of folk songs and music research works became known in Bulgaria, but other Croatian pedagogic works that were designed for music education and amateur choral groups as well. The interest in them on the part of two of the most famous Bulgarian high schools in Gabrovo and Plovdiv, and the recently established choral and music societies, opened up new realms of Bulgarian-Croatian music and cultural relations, which developed in the 20th century.
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Datum izdavanja:
13.6.2013.
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