Josip Mandic

Josip Mandić [ ˈjɔsip ˈmanditɕ ] (born April 4, 1883 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary , † October 5, 1959 in Prague ) was a composer of Croatian origin.

Life

Mandić was born in Trieste to a family from Kastav in northeastern Istria . His uncle was editor of the most important Croatian newspaper in Trieste, Naša sloga , his brother became a politician and later was a member of the Yugoslav government .

During his high school in Zagreb , Mandić received music lessons from Franjo Vilhar Kalski . At that time, at the age of 14, he wrote his first composition, the "Croatian Mass" ("Hrvatska misa") for mixed choir, which was soon printed by Dionička tiskara and then by the Leipzig publisher "Engelmann & Mühlberg".

After moving to Vienna , Mandić wrote his first opera "Petar Svačić" in 1903 . In the same year, the members of the music group of the Dalmatinski skup Society performed parts of this opera as a concert in the Rosetti Theater in Trieste . The first performance of the opera took place on January 12, 1904 in Ljubljana in the Slovenian National Theater.

In Vienna, Mandić enrolled at the Conservatory , where Robert Fuchs and Hermann Graedener were his teachers. At this time he also composed the cantata "Slaven i pjesma" for mixed choir and orchestra (1902), which was premiered in Trieste, and the suite for orchestra "Čemulpo" (1905), which was premiered in Ljubljana. He then ended his work as a composer and devoted himself to work as a lawyer . Together with his brother Ante Mandić , he opened a law office in Trieste.

Based on the ideas of the Czech national socialist Václav Klofáč , who was interested in the creation of a South Slavic organization comparable to his own , Mandić began agitation in Trieste in 1907, especially among the educated foremen, and founded the National Workers' Organization ( Slovene Narodna delavska organizacija , croat. Narodna radnička organizacija ). In a short time he succeeded in recruiting around 3,000 members for his organization, mainly in the coastal area and in Istria , but also in Styria and Carniola . The members were mainly railway workers who founded their own union in 1909.

The political climate in Italy after the First World War prompted Mandić to go to Switzerland , where he lived in Zurich and Bern for a few years . From there he moved on to Prague , where he stayed for the rest of his life. He married a Czech woman and changed his first name to Jozef . With his string quartet from 1927 he began his real career as a composer. He composed three operas , four symphonies , symphonic variations, an orchestral suite, chamber music works, a Croatian mass and a motet . Stylistically, it can still be assigned to Romanticism.

His orchestral pieces were performed with great success in the 1930s, but later his works seemed long lost. The Croatian musicologist Davor Merkaš found forgotten and lost works by Josip Mandić in Prague and Vienna.

Works

• Hrvatska misa ( Croatian Fair )
• Slaven i pjesma , cantata, 1902
• Petar Svačić , Opera, 1903
• Čemulpo , Suite for Orchestra, 1905
• String Quartet (Gudački kvartet), 1927
• Mirjana , opera
• Kapetan Niko , opera
• Varijacije na Mozartovu temu
• Noćno lutanje
• Kvintet
• Nonet
• Mala suita

literature

• Krešimir Kovačević (ed.): Leksikon jugoslavenske muzike . Volume 1: A - Ma . Jugoslavenski Leksikografski Zavod "Miroslav Krleža", Zagreb 1984.
• Martin Jevnikar: Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon . Volume 2: Kacin - Pirjevec . Goriška Mohorjeva Družba, Gorica 1982/85.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Otkrivena tajna nestale opere , Nacional, br. 647, April 7, 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Povratak zaboravljene »Mirjane« , in: Vjesnik, April 14, 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Šimun Jurišić: Hrvati u Trstu , in: Hrvatska revija , Broj 1, Godište IV., 2004.
4. ↑ Irena Gantar Godina: Vpliv izseljenske izkušnje 1911–1921 na svetovnonazorsko opredelitev , in: Migracijske i etničke teme , 23 (2007), 3, pp. 269–291 pdf (1) pdf (2) , p. 271.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Muzički informativni centar ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.