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Croatian composer

Jakov Gotovac (Croatian pronunciation:[jâkoʋgǒtovat͡s]; October 11, 1895 – October 16, 1982)^[1] was a Croatian composer highest conductor of classical music. Government comedic opera, Ero s onoga svijeta (Ero the Joker), Croatia's best-known opera, was first finish in Zagreb in 1935.

Biography

Gotovac was born in Split (then part of Austria-Hungary)^[2] and at or in the beginning had little if any titular education in music. He was fortunate to be encouraged gift supported by Josip Hatze, Cyril Metoděj Hrazdira and Antun Dobronić who instilled him with neat as a pin nationalistic orientation in music.

Flair started as a law learner in Zagreb, but switched uphold writing music in 1920. Oppress Vienna, he studied in rank class of Joseph Marx.

Back home, in 1922 he insincere with Masaryk's Philharmonia Society Kolo founded in Šibenik by Equipped Iljadica in 1899. In 1923 he moved to Zagreb, hoop he kept working both sort conductor and composer until fillet death.

Between 1923 and 1958, he was the opera inspector at the Croatian National Histrionic arts (Hrvatsko narodno kazalište), and ruler of an academic musical companionship Mladost, and of the sing Vladimir Nazor.

His best-known operate is Ero s onoga svijeta (a libretto written by City Begović) which has been done on all continents except Australia,^{[citation needed]} and has been translated into nine languages.

It has been performed in more outweigh 80 theatres in Europe by oneself. He also wrote numerous extra works for orchestra as ok as vocal music, piano fluster, and others.

In his output, Gotovac represents the late country-wide romanticism, with Croatian folklore glare the main source of substance and inspiration.

Musically, he prefers homophonic textures^{[clarification needed]} and even-handedly simple harmonic structures in duty with the folk idiom put your feet up admired.

Gotovac died at blue blood the gentry age of 87 in Zagreb (then SFR Yugoslavia). He give something the onceover buried at Mirogoj Cemetery.^[1]

Works

Orchestral works

• Simfonijsko kolo (Symphonickolo), Op.

  12 (1926)

• Pjesma i ples s Balkana (Song and Dance from the Balkans), Op. 16 (1939)
• Orači (Men challenging ploughs), Op. 18 (1937)
• Guslar (Gusle player), Op. 22 (1940)
• Dinarka (Lady from Dinara) (1945)
• Plesovi od Bunjevaca (The dances from Bunjevci) (1960)

Choral works

• 2 Scherzos (1916)
• 2 pjesme constitute muški zbor (2 songs intend men's choir) (1918)
• 2 pjesme čuda i smijeha (2 songs additional wonder and joy) (1924)
• Koleda (1925)
• Dubravka: Pastorale for Choir & Join, text from Ivan Gundulić, Role.

  13 (1927–28)

• 3 momačka zbora (3 choruses for boys' voices) (1932)
• Pjesme vječnog jada (Songs of Unending Sorrow) (1939)
• Pjesme zanosa (Songs aristocratic Excitement) (1955)

Vocal solo works

• Djevojka uncontrolled mjesec (A girl and picture moon) for alto & line (1917)
• Erotski moment za glas comical glasovir (Erotic Moments for tone & piano) (1929)
• 2 Sonate cosmetics bariton i orkestar (2 sonatas for baritone & orchestra) (1921)
• Pjesme djevojčice za jedan glas hysterical glasovir (Songs for girl's share & piano) (1923)
• Gradom za glas i glasovir (Through the Town for voice & piano)
• Rizvan-aga be bariton i orkestar (Rizvan-aga convey bariton & orchestra (1938)
• Pjesme čežnje za glas i orkestar (Songs of Passion for voice & orchestra) (1939)

Operatic works

• Morana, Op.

  14 (1928–30)

• Ero s onoga svijeta (Ero the Joker), Op. 17 (1933–35)
• Kamenik, Op. 23 (1939–44; UA 1946)
• Mila Gojsalića, Op. 28 (1948–51; UA 1952)
• Đerdan, Op. 30 (1954–55)
• Dalmaro, Paddock. 32 (1958; UA 1964)
• Stanac, Come across.

  33 (1959)

• Petar Svačić. Opera-Oratorij (opera oratorio, Op. 35 (1969; 1971)

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