Krsto Odak
Krsto Odak (born March 20, 1888 in Siverić , † November 4, 1965 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav composer.
Life
Odak was a student of the Franciscans and studied theology in Munich. In addition, he completed a musical education with Father Hartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn . After his return in 1913 he became a priest in Sinj. In 1919 he went to Prague and studied with Vítězslav Novák . At the graduate concert he won first prize with a sonata for violin and piano.
From 1922 until his retirement in 1961 he was a composition teacher at the Zagreb Music Academy . He composed four symphonies, two Passacaglias, a string suite and other orchestral works, a piano and a saxophone concerto, operas and drama, chamber music works, a cantata, two Old Slavic masses , motets, madrigals and songs.
Stage works
- Dorica pleše , opera, 1933
- Konac svijeta , Opera, 1943
- Majka Margarita , Opera, 1952/53
- Leptirica i mjesec , ballet, 1958
- Živkov badnjak , incidental music, 1950
- Prica o Novoj godini , incidental music, 1950
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. 193 .
Web links
- Glazbena Skola "Krsto Odak" - biography
- Biography in Oxford Journals Vol 81 No. 2 pp 336-37
- Catalog raisonné at the Croatian Composers' Society
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Odak, Krsto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siveric |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1965 |
| Place of death | Zagreb |