Serbian composers on You Tube

[pjme]

https://www.youtube.com/v/6QikXWTcZfI?list=PLRfh8jFiIUizFWozatlZGs-Aq5uN_lgg7

https://www.youtube.com/v/Kyd8Mv7Lh84

https://www.youtube.com/v/EJ4sXX9yBTs

https://www.youtube.com/v/GJocMeXyxsM?list=PLDukKbRGvncTgzOdpGbHrZmFIFlL5i_CM

Preserving and promoting the greatest part of the rich inheritance of Yugoslav composer Josip Štolcer Slavenski (1896-1955) was entrusted to the Union of Yugoslav Composers' Organizations (SOKOJ) and is located on 1 Nikola Pašic Square in Belgrade, which (since 1997) also houses the Music Information Center (MIC).

The Josip Slavenski Legacy was officialy opened on December 8th 1983 as a memorial room which consists of a collection of books and scores, instruments, personal belongings, letters and manuscripts, which were once located in the composer's study in 33 Svetosavska Street in Belgrade. The aim of this foundation is to preserve the heritage of this composer by looking after his estate and promoting his music by publishing compact discs with his works, using a musicological approach to his lesser known works in our possession, and through concerts and roundtables devoted to his music.

J. Slavenski's personal belongings from his original study reflect his interest in Balkan culture and customs, so one can see naturally dyed rugs form Pirot, a set of traditionally engraved tables from Konjic in Bosnia, authentic hand-made wooden chairs from Montenegro, and many different folk instruments such as the darabuka (Arabian drum), tambourine, gusla...

His library fund contains 3,360 items: 1,271 written and published works of music, 822 books, 153 gramophone records, 16 boxes of tapes, and 1,099 letters. Slavenski's book collection includes literature from many diverse areas such as music theory, physics, astronomy, psychology, linguistics, ethnology, as well as biographies of historic figures such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Nikola Tesla, and many others.

Slavenski bequethed a very large and interesting correspondence, which today represents a unique document of a bygone era. Slavenski and his contemporaries corresponded in eleven languages: Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Russian, Bulgarian, Czech, English, German, French, Hungarian, Greek, and Turkish. This collection preserves authentic letters and autographs of renowned performers, composers, music scholars, and conductors, including Krešimir Baranovic, Jakov Gotovac, Slavko Osterc, Petar Stojanovic, Miloje Milojevic, Stevan Hristic, Ljubica Maric, Edward Dent, Petar Bingulac, Stana Ðuric-Klajn, Zlatko Balokovic, Leopold Stokowski, Alois Hába, Jozef Suk, and Zoltán Kodály.

I discovered https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIo2x4lsZwUA9O4YXa0uPGQ
on You Tube. Fascinating collection of unknown composers from Serbia.

P.

[pjme]

https://www.youtube.com/v/3sT91KGutzY

I hope to find Danijela Spiric-Beard's thesis : Border-Bridge -Crossroads: the construction of Yugoslav identity in Music 1835-1938.

http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/golden-pages/184-2/border-bridge-crossroads-the-construction-of-yugoslav-identity-in-music-1835-1938-and-the-case-of-josip-stolcer-slavenski/

Josip Slavenski and the Question of Yugoslav Identity at the Crossroads

(Slavenski, palimpsests and post-1990 scholarship; Pre-1990 scholarship on Slavenski; Slavenski and Yugoslavism; Međimurje; Anti-heroic re-imaginings of Yugoslavia; Re-mapping identities, reimagining communities: towards the Balkans and the Ottoman legacy)

5 Slavenski the Modernist, and the Question of Yugoslav Music at the Crossroads

(Slavenski's modernist aesthetics; Contextualizing Slavenski within European modernity; Slavenski's hybridity: folklore, experimentalism and Klangkomposition; Zenitists and the barbarogenij; Sa Balkana (1910–17); Singing and dancing; Anti-piano; Slavenska Sonata (1924); The emancipation of sound; Chaos (1932))

https://www.youtube.com/v/Soe3Ev-Dzwk

Sonata religiosa for violin and organ 1919-1925!!

P.

[Drasko]

That youtube channel is invaluable. I think more than 90% of those recordings are not commercially available. Whoever runs it must have good connections in radio archives.

[pjme]

Thanks for the reply, Drasko. I really enjoyed discovering those completely unknown names and the music.Slavenski seems to be a great character - I'm sure that Langgaard / Ruggles lovers should be able to love his music.
That Sonata religiosa for violin and organ is absolutely astonishing! And so is Chaos.

But there is much more than these "futuristic"sounds - from gently romantic to boldly expressionistic in style.

Peter