Mladen Bašić

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Mladen Bašić (born August 1, 1917 in Zagreb ; † November 21, 2012 ibid) was a Yugoslav and Croatian pianist and conductor .

life and career

Mladen Bašić

Mladen Bašić studied piano, conducting and composition at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He began his musical career in 1940 as a répétiteur and from 1945 as conductor of the opera of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb (from 1955 to 1958 he was also the opera director there). In 1959 he was invited to the Salzburg State Theater as opera director and one year later he was also employed as chief conductor of the Mozarteum orchestra in Salzburg . From 1962 to 1972 he was a permanent guest conductor at the famous Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona . In 1967 and 1968 Bašić was appointed first Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera . From 1968 to 1970 he worked again in his homeland, this time as music director of the summer festival “Splitsko ljeto” and as opera director of the Croatian National Theater in Split . From 1970 to 1978 he was the permanent conductor and program director of the Zagreb Philharmonic , where he worked closely and very successfully with the then chief conductor Lovro von Matačić . In 1978 he was invited to Mainz , where he was general music director until 1990 .

Mladen Bašić has appeared as an orchestral conductor in many European concert halls. His meticulous reading of the score and extremely careful preparation of each performance made his musical interpretations always stylistically refined and rich in content. He earned special recognition for the numerous world premieres of works by contemporary Croatian composers - such as B., for the world premiere of the scenic oratorio Marulova pisan by Boris Papandopulo . In his home country he also earned respect for the premieres of the world-famous works by Maurice Ravel , Benjamin Britten , Sergei Prokofjew , Igor Stravinsky , Florent Schmitt and Béla Bartók .

Awards

  • In 1987, Mladen Bašić received the Peter Cornelius plaque from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for his many years of activity as general music director at the Mainz Theater .
  • In 1997 Mladen Bašić was honored with the Vladimir Nazor Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia for his life's work.
  • In 1998 he received the Tito Strozzi Prize from the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb for the performance of Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia .
  • In 2006 he was honored with the Lovro von Matačić Prize of the Croatian Association of Academic Musicians (Croatian: HDGU) for his life's work.

literature

  • Kovačević, Krešimir: "Bašić, Mladen". In: Kovačević, K. (Ed.), Muzička Enciklopedija , Zagreb: JLZ, 1971, volume 1, p. 149.
  • Požgaj, Višnja: "Karijera ostvarenih želja". In: Šeput, L. & Jelača, M. (Ed.), Vijenac , Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2006, No. 312.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Umro poznati conductor Mladen Bašić ( memento of January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Croatian), dalje.com, November 22, 2012, accessed on November 22, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Bašić, Mladen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2012
Place of death Zagreb