Stanislav Binički

Stanislav Binički (born July 27, 1872 in Jasika near Kruševac ; † February 15, 1942 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav composer, conductor and opera director.

Life

Stanislav Binički first studied mathematics at the University of Belgrade , then from 1895 to 1899 singing and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger . In Munich he appeared as a vocal soloist and conductor and married the singer Frieda Blanke (1876–1956), who later called herself Miroslava Binički. The couple moved to Belgrade in 1899, where Stanislav Binički became Kapellmeister at the National Theater . In the same year he founded the Belgrade Military Orchestra, which he directed for many years, in 1904 he founded the Orchestra of the Royal Guard, which he also directed. With his wife he founded a music school and he also took over the management of several choral societies. During the First World War he performed as an orchestra conductor in France .

In 1920 he was one of the co-initiators of the Belgrade Opera, where he then worked as director and conductor, while his wife worked there as a répétiteur and also appeared as a singer herself. In 1924 Stanislav Binički ended his professional activities.

family

Stanislav Binički is a brother of the opera singer Aleksandar Binički .

Works

Stanislav Binički composed several works for choirs, sacred music , marches , singspiele , as well as the opera Na uranku (In the Dawn, 1904, with Branislav Nušić as lyricist), which is considered the first Serbian opera.

The Marš na Drinu ( Drina March or March to the Drina ), composed by him in 1915, is his most famous composition. The march, for which a text originally existed, was covered in the 1960s by various Western European musicians as a modernly arranged instrumental title. Jørgen Ingmann reached number 5 in the German single charts with his guitar version in March 1964; other versions were recorded by The Spotnicks , The Shadows and James Last , among others . Another cover version can be found on the 1994 album NATO by the Slovenian band Laibach .

literature

• Tatjana Marković, Binički, Stanislav , in: Music in the past and present , 2nd edition, personal section, volume 2, 1999, column 1660–1662
• John Warrack and Roksanda Pejović, Binički, Stanislav , in: The New Grove , 2nd Edition, Volume 3, 2001, p. 597