Classical Music of Serbia
Composer and musicologist Stevan Stojanvic Mokranjac is seen as one of the very prominent initiators of current Serbian music. He was bor...
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Composer
and musicologist Stevan Stojanvic
Mokranjac is seen as one of the very prominent initiators of current
Serbian music. He was born in the year 1856, Mokranjac taught music, collected Serbian folk songs and he did his
first scholarly research work on Serbian music. He was also the director of the
first Serbian School of Music and he is one of the initiators of the Union of
Singing societies. His most popular compositions are the Song Wreaths.
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During
in the 19th and 20th centuries many ensembles, both the
civilian and military, assisted to the establishment of music culture in
Belgrade and other Serbian towns and cities. Earlier to Mokranjac’s period, Serbia’s representatives of the romantic era
were world-popular violinist known as Dragomir
Krancevic in the year 1874 to 1929, pianist Sidonija llic, Pianist and composer Jovanka Stojkovic and opera
singer Sofija Sedmakov who attained
achievement performing in opera houses of Germany in the 1890s. For instance,
the path show custom was the first initiated by the Serbian Prince band
established in the year 1831, and it was first conducted by Joseph Shlezinger, who composed music for the
ensemble based on folk Serbian songs. This was during the period when the first
choral societies, then extremely sung in German and Italian dialect, were being
organized. And later also the first Serbian language compositions for choirs
were written by Kormelije Stankovic.
Miloje Milojevic, Stevan Hristic,
and Petar Konjovic were the Serbian
composers, and all of them was born in 1880s, were the very well-known
composers of their generation. They held the national expression and renovated
the romanticism into the way of impressionism.
The
well-known composer born around the 1910 studied in Europe, mostly in Prague. Ljubica Maric, Milan Ristic, Stanojlo
Rajicic took influence from Schoenberg,
Hindemith and Haba, rejecting the
conservative composition of prior Serbian composers, seeing it as old fashioned
and the wish for the national expression was outside their interest. And other
popular classical Serbian composers include Josif
Marinkovic, Isidor Bajic and Stanislav
Binicki.