Boris Papandopulo

Boris Papandopulo (born February 25, 1906 in Honnef , † October 16, 1991 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav composer and conductor .

Life

Boris Papandopulo began his musical career as a choirmaster and conductor in Split (1935–1938 and conductor of the Split Opera 1968–1974), conductor and artistic director in Rijeka (1946–1948 and 1953–1959), conductor of the radio orchestra and the Zagreb Opera (1940–1945), artistic director of the Zagreb Opera (1943–1945) and conductor of the Sarajevo Opera. His more than 400 compositions include stage and orchestral works, chamber music , works for solo instruments, sacred works, works for singing and choral works. Papandopulo combines elements of Croatian folk music with twelve-tone music and high demands on virtuosity.

Boris Papandopulo has a very special place in Croatian music history. As the son of Konstantin Papandopulos, a baron of Greek origin (whose father the Russian Tsar Alexander inherited a whole city as a reward for stifling uprisings in the Caucasus: Stavropol ) and the great Croatian singer Maja Strozzi , he grew up in Zagreb, graduated there went to school and spent most of his life in Croatia. After studying music with Franjo Dugan and the famous music teacher and composer Blagoje Bersa , with whom he took composition lessons, Papandopulo trained as a conductor at the New Vienna Conservatory in Vienna in the master class of Dirk Fock . He was buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb.

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In his compositions he often merged influences from jazz and folklore idioms with neo-stylistic elements from the 20th century such as dodecaphony and did not shy away from excursions into the realm of trivial music and pop hits .

literature

• Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 252 .

Web links

• Works by and about Boris Papandopulo in the catalog of the German National Library