Arti musices, Vol. 39 No. 1, 2008.
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Ivan Kamburov's Book on Croatian Music History
Sanja Majer-Bobetko
orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-481X
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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The prominent Bulgarian musicologist Ivan Kamburov (1883-1955) wrote and published the book H'rvatska muzika. Minalo i s'vremenost [Croatian Music. Past and Present] in Sofia in 1942. On the 99 pages of that small book he presented material in several chapters, without illustrations, music examples etc. Proceeding from similarities in the Bulgarian and Croatian past, Kamburov laid stress upon their cultural and, in particular, music connections. His basic thesis was that Croatian secular music started to develop in the 19th century during the Illyrian Movement, that is, the National Revival. In the earlier periods, music in Croatia belonged to the category of church music. Although he mainly relied on Božidar Širola's Pregled povijesti hrvatske muzike [Survey of Croatian Music History, 1922], in which the writer mentioned the Croatian secular music of earlier centuries, Kamburov did not take that information into account for reasons that remain unclear. A significant amount of crudity and inaccuracy testifies to the fact that Kamburov did not consult his Croatian colleagues.
Written in the Bulgarian language, Kamburov's book was obviously meant for the Bulgarian public. Its reception in Bulgaria has not been yet researched. To the best of our knowledge, two reviews were published in Croatian daily newspapers, and a very short note in the music journal Sv. Cecilija pointed out some of the factual mistakes. However, no strictly musicological review was published. It is possible that Croatian musicologists valued Kamburov's hard work and did not want to speak detrimentally about the book and its oversights and superficialities at that time of intensive revitalization of Croatian-Bulgarian relations.
In any case, that book is still the only musico-historiographical synthesis on Croatian music by a non-Croatian author. As such, it must not be overlooked in works dealing with the very discipline of Croatian music historiography.
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