Slavko Osterc

Slavko Osterc (born June 17, 1895 in Veržej ; † May 23, 1941 in Ljubljana ) was a Yugoslav composer.

Osterc studied at the Prague Conservatory with Karel Boleslav Jirák , Vítězslav Novák and Alois Hába . Until 1939 he taught at the Conservatory, then at the Ljubljana Music Academy . He composed six operas and five ballets , a symphony , two symphonic poems and five symphonic pieces, a bagatelle, a suite, an overture , a concerto and a passacaglia for orchestra, a concerto for piano and wind instruments, chamber music works, piano and organ pieces , Choral works and songs . He also wrote a theory of harmony .

Operas

Krst pri Savici ( Baptism on the Savica after France Prešeren ), musical drama, 1921
Osveta ( Revenge after Theodor Körner ), Opera, 1923
Iz komične opere ( From the comic opera based on Henri Murger ), comic opera, 1928
Krog s kredo ( The chalk circle after Klabund ), Opera, 1928/29
Saloma ( Salome ), opera parody, 1929/30
Dandin v vicah ( Dandin in purgatory according to Molière and Hans Sachs ), opera grotesque , 1930

Medea (after Euripides ), Opera, 1930

N. Gspan: Osterc Slavko. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 261.