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Slavko Osterc in the 1930s
Slavko Osterc (17 June 1895 – 23 May 1941), was a
Slovenian composer.
Osterc was born in
Veržej . He studied under
Emerik Beran , who was a pupil of
Leoš Janáček , in his youth before attending the
Prague Conservatory from 1925 to 1927. While there he studied under
Karel Boleslav Jirák ,
Vítězslav Novák , and
Alois Hába . Osterc was a professor at the
Ljubljana Conservatory for much of his career, remaining there until his death. He was much the leading composer of Slovenia in the 1930s, as
Marij Kogoj had been in the 1920s.
[1] One of his pupils was
Pavel Šivic .
Works
Note: This list is incomplete.
Operas
Krst pri Savici (The Baptism on the Savica, after
France Prešeren 's
The Baptism on the Savica , 1921)
Osveta (after
Theodor Körner , 1923)
Iz komične opere (From the Comic Opera, after
Henri Murger , 1928)
Krog s kredo (The Chalk Circle, after
Klabund , 1928/29)
Saloma (Salome, 1929/30)
Dandin v vicah (Dandin in Purgatory, after
Molière and
Hans Sachs , 1930)
Medea (after
Euripides ), 1930
Ballets
Iz Satanovega Dnevnika (From Satan's Diary, 1924)
Maska rdeče smrti (The Masque of the Red Death, 1930)
Illusions (1938–40)
Orchestral
The Baptism on the Savica (
symphonic picture , 1921)
Bagatelles (1922)
Symphony (1922)
Suite (1929)
Concerto for Orchestra (1932)
Ouverture classique (1932)
Concerto (1933)
Passacaglia and Chorale (1934)
Danses (1935)
Mouvements symphoniques (1936)
4 pieces symphoniques (1938–39)
Mati (Mother;
symphonic poem , 1940)
Other
References
^ Vlado Kotnik - Opera, power and ideology: anthropological study of a national art 2010 -p97 "The interwar generation of Slovenian opera composers was characterized by an eclectic range of styles, from Romanticism to modernism. The 1920s were dominated by the Expressionist composer Marij Kogoj,60 a pupil of Schoenberg and the 1930s.. Slavko Osterc"
Further reading
Don Randel , The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music . Harvard, 1996, p. 656.
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