Božidar Širola
Božidar Širola (born December 20, 1889 in Žakanje , † April 10, 1956 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav composer.
Širola completed a degree in mathematics and physics until 1913. He then studied music in Zagreb with Ivan Zajc and until 1921 in Vienna with Guido Adler . He worked as a high school teacher in Zagreb, was director of the music academy from 1935 to 1941, then until 1945 director of the ethnographic museum in Zagreb.
He composed three operas, a symphony, a violin and a piano concerto, chamber music works, four masses, some cantatas, several song cycles and folk song arrangements. For the oratorio Život i spomen slavnih ucitelja sv. Brace Cirila i Metoda , he received recognition at the World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1927 in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, Širola wrote the first Croatian music history.
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- Alfred Baumgärtner Propylaea World of Music. The Composers , Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3-549-07835-8 , p. 163
- Božidar Širola (1889–1956) ( Memento from December 24, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) in the National and University Library Zagreb (NSK)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Širola, Božidar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Žakanje |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1956 |
| Place of death | Zagreb |