Oskar Danon
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Oskar Danon
(b Sarajevo, 7 Feb 1913). Yugoslav conductor and composer. He studied at the Prague Conservatory and conducted in Sarajevo from 1938. He became director of Belgrade Opera (1945) and took the company to Lausanne and Paris (1958). A visit to Edinburgh in 1962 and recordings of Borodin's Prince Igor and Glinka's A Life for the Tsar were important in re-establishing Slavonic opera in the West after World War II.
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Oskar Danon
Oskar Danon (February 7, 1913 – December 18, 2009)[1] was a Bosnian Jewish composer and conductor.[2]
Early life and education
Oskar Danon was born in 1913 in Sarajevo, then in the Austria-Hungarian Empire but now in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied music in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he obtained his Ph.D. in musicology.
Performance career
He worked as a conductor in Sarajevo, and after the World War II became conductor and director of the Belgrade Opera (1944–1965) and the chief conductor of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra (1970–1974). He was also a conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. With these orchestras he performed both in Yugoslavia and abroad (Paris, Wiesbaden, Florence, etc.).
Teaching career
Oskar Danon was professor at the Belgrade Music Academy.
Awards and honors
Danon was awarded the October Award of the City of Belgrade for his conducting activity, as well as the AVNOJ Award (1970).
Affiliations
Danon was a member and former president of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia.
Death
He died in Belgrade, Serbia on 18 December 2009, aged 96.
Notes
- ^ Preminuo kompozitor i dirigent Oskar Danon, Politika, Retrieved on December 18, 2009
- ^ Munjin, Bojan (22 March 2007). "Ovo su društva bez vizije" (in Croatian). Feral Tribune. http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:8ExEfTvQMIgJ:feral.mediaturtle.com/look/weekly1/article_tisak.tpl%3FIdLanguage%3D7%26IdPublication%3D1%26NrArticle%3D15604%26NrIssue%3D1122%26NrSection%3D15%26ST1%3Dtext%26ST_T1%3Dinterview%26ST_AS1%3D1%26ST_max%3D1+oskar+danon+cigo+jovo&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&client=firefox-a. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
See also
References
- Holmes, John L. Conductors on Record, Victor Gollancz, London 1982.
- Kolar, Vladimir. Oskar Danon. Tonovi jednog vremena, Savez kompozitorajugoslavije, Beograd 1973.
- Krleza, Miroslav. Leksikon Jugoslavenske Muzike, Jugoslavenski Leksikografski Zavod, Zagreb 1984.
- Maksimović, M. (1971): Beogradska filharmonija 1951–1971, Beogradska filharmonija, Beograd
- Mala enciklopedija Prosveta, I (1978), Prosveta, Beograd
- Muzička enciklopedija, I (1971), Jugoslovenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb
- Muzika i muzičari u NOB — Zbornik sećanja (1982), Grupa izdavača, Beograd
- Pedeset godina Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti (Muzičke akademije) 1937–1987 (1988), Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd
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- Peričić, V. [1969]: Muzički stvaraoci u Srbiji, Prosveta, Beograd
- Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Macmillan, London 1980.
- Danon Oskar i Hribar Svjetlana "Ritmovi nemira",I. izdanje Sarajevska zima,Sarajevo 2005., II. izdanje Beogradska filharmonija, Beograd 2006. godine
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