Emil Adamič

Emil Adamič

Emil Adamič (also: Emij Adamič, Milan Adamič _; born December 25, 1877 in Dobrova ; † December 6, 1936 in Ljubljana , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav , Slovenian composer , music teacher and music critic .

family

His parents were the teacher and organist Avgust Adamič and Katarina Adamič nee. Brus. He was the fourth of eleven children. The writer and director Ernest Adamič (born November 12, 1898; † May 12, 1977) and the musician Viktor Adamič (born February 10, 1876; † March 17, 1924) were his brothers. The conductor and composer Bojan Adamič (born August 9, 1912, † November 3, 1995) was his nephew. In 1906 he married Hana Keber.

Life

1877 to 1914 - childhood and studies

In 1879 Emil Adamič's family moved from Dobrova to Ljubljana . His father taught him music theory, harmony and piano playing. At the age of seven he sang in the church choir of St. Peter, which his father conducted. He also attended St. Peter's Elementary School. At the age of ten in 1887, he received violin lessons from Edvard Fran Stiaral and music theory and singing from Fran Gerbič. He was an organist at an early age and led his father's church choir. After elementary school, he went to high school and received music lessons from Anton Förster . In 1892 he switched to a school for teacher training in order to receive better music education there. Here Matej Hubad and Josip Čerin taught him harmony, organ and singing. He received violin lessons from Hans Gerstner. He directed a tamburica orchestra. In 1897 he laid the matriculation examination ( Matura ab). He began to compose intensively and worked on the music newspaper Novi Akordi . In 1901 he published two choral works. In 1903 he went to Kamnik as a teacher . Here he composed choral music, piano pieces and songs. He took part in various competitions and earned several awards. At his own request, he was transferred to Trieste in 1909. He taught at an elementary school, led a choir and gave piano lessons. Adamič enrolled at the Trieste Conservatory in autumn 1911 and was included in Anton Zampieri's composition class. Another teacher was Gialdino Gialdini. His piano teacher was Fabio Rimini. In June 1912 he left the conservatory without a degree, but with distinction, because the conservatory was overburdened.

1914 to 1922 - First World War, imprisonment and time in the Soviet Union

In 1914 he was called up for military service. He was stationed in the Przemyśl fortress . After the garrison surrendered , Adamič was taken prisoner by Russia. He was interned in a camp near Tashkent, where he fell ill with malaria . Due to his skills, he was initially employed in the administration as a draftsman in February 1917. Thanks to his musical talent, he was employed as a music teacher in the same year and directed an official choir. After the revolution he wanted to return home, but the circumstances did not allow it. Because of the complicated situation in 1918 he was accepted as a teacher at the Conservatory in Tashkent. He taught music theory and harmony at the conservatory and teacher training college, directed the national choir and worked in the theater. In the last year of his stay he became a member of a national ethnographic commission and collected folk music. He composed and used Slovenian, Tartar and Kyrgyz motifs. According to several sources, he even became director of the conservatory. He stayed in Tashkent until 1920 and was one of the most famous music teachers.

1922 to 1936 - time in Ljubljana

In August 1920 he returned to Slovenia. He was hired as a music teacher at a boys' school in Ljubljana. Because he suffered from hearing loss and an ear disease, he was put on sick leave for six months, and he took a break. He traveled through Bosnia and the Adriatic and collected folk songs which he later used in his compositions. Between 1921 and 1924 he taught regularly at the St. Cäcilia School. He went to the Conservatory in Vienna for a year to prepare for the state examination. He passed his final examination at the Ljubljana Conservatory in 1922 with flying colors and formally completed his training there. From January 1928 to December 1929 he was editor of the magazine Nova musika. From 1924 to 1936 he undertook concert tours with various choirs, mainly to Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. In 1931 he became a music professor in Ljubljana. He was a lecturer and choir director. A year later he was transferred to the high school in Ljubljana against his will, which he felt was a great injustice. During his regular work he gave singing and choral courses at various associations.

After his return he lived as a music teacher and composer in Ljubljana until his death. Shortly after attending an educational congress in Prague, he died on December 6, 1936 of an embolism in Ljubljana.

Act

Adamič composed orchestral works ( Tatar suite , watercolors from Ljubljana ), choral works ( The Devil's Bride , Emperor Samuel's Death ) and songs ( farmer's winter song , night songs ), in which he used elements of Slovenian folk music .

literature

• Adamič Emil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 5.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Darja Koter: Adamič, Emil (1877–1936) . In: Barbara Šterbenc Svetina et al. (Ed.): Novi Slovenski biografski leksikon . tape 1 . Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Ljubljana 2013 (Slovenian, slovenska-biografija.si ).
2. ↑ Zorko Harej, Marijan Brecelj: Adamič, Emil (1877-1936) . In: Uredniški odbor Gorica (ed.): Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon . tape 1 . Goriška Mohorjeva družba, Gorica 1974 (Slovenian, slovenska-biografija.si ).
3. ↑ Zorko Harej, Marijan Brecelj: Adamič, Emil (1877-1936) - Slovenska biografija. Slovenska biografija. Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti. In: Adamič, Emil (1877–1936). 2013, accessed on March 29, 2017 (Slovenian). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} ADAMIČ, Emil. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 30, 2017 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 (Slovenian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.