Stanojlo Rajičić

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Stanojlo Rajičić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Станојло Рајичић ; born December 16, 1910 in Belgrade ; † July 21, 2000 ibid) was a Yugoslav composer and music teacher.

Rajičić attended the music schools of Belgrade and Stankovic. His teachers included Petar Krstić , Jovan Mokranjac , Milenko Paunović , Josipa Slavenskog and Vladimir R. Đorđević . In Ruža Vinaver he acquired in 1930 a diploma in piano. As a scholarship holder of the Czech government, he studied for five and a half years at the Prague Conservatory with Rudolf Karel (composition) and Alojz Šima (piano) and was a master student of Josef Suk . This was followed by master classes in piano with Karel Hoffmeister and privately in Vienna with Walter Kerschbaumer .

After his return he was music editor for Radio Belgrade for a short time and then became a piano teacher at the Music School and Music Academy of Belgrade. In 1940 he became professor of composition and orchestration at the Music Academy, where he taught until his retirement in 1977.

Rajičić composed several operas, ballets and drama music, six symphonies, a cycle of four symphonic poems, a concert overture and a symphonic suite, ten instrumental concerts (three piano and three violin concertos, two clarinet concertos, one cello and one bassoon concert), as well as chamber music, Piano pieces and songs.

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SURNAME Rajičić, Stanojlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Рајичић, Станојло (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2000
Place of death Belgrade