Dragiša Nedović
Dragiša Nedović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгиша Недовић; Kragujevac, Kingdom of Serbia, 20 July 1916 – 31 January 1966) was a Serbian folk songwriter, composer and musician. Having lived in Serbia, Bosnia and Dalmatia, he composed numerous tunes in Serbian folk ("Stani, stani Ibar vodo"), Bosnian Sevdalinka ("U lijepom starom gradu Višegradu") and Dalmatian ("Kad si bila mala, Mare") popular styles. He composed several hundred songs, and many of them remain popular standards to this day, although Nedović's authorship is not universally known.[1]
Biography
Dragiša Nedović was born on 20 July 1916 in Kragujevac, in central Serbia. His parents, Andrija and Gina, had nine children — five sons and three daughters, three of whom having died early.[2]
As the family was poor, Nedović left his home in 1932 as a 16-year-old and worked as a traveling musician across Serbia, Bosnia, and Dalmatia. Self-taught but talented, he was quick to adapt to local styles and created numerous tunes, which quickly became popular and picked up by other orchestras. As he did not make recordings or published the songs through recording houses, his authorship of many of those songs was often forgotten and revealed only later, through research. To this day, many of them are considered "
During the
Nedović's health, however, worsened, as he contracted
Selected songs
- Serbian[1]
- "Stani, stani Ibar vodo"
- "Lepe li su, nano, Gružanke devojke"
- "Tekla reka Lepenica"
- "Obraše se vinogradi"
- "Na Moravi vodenica stara"
- "Siroma sam, druže"
- "Jesen prođe, ja se ne ozenih"
- "Jesi l' čuo mili rode"
- "Lepo ti je biti čobanica"[4]
- Bosnian[1]
- "U lijepom starom gradu Višegradu"
- "Iz Bosne se jedna pjesma čuje"
- "Prođoh Bosnom kroz gradove"
- Dalmatian[1]
- "Kad si bila mala Mare"
- "O lipa ti neznanko"
- "O brodiću bijeli"
References
- ^ a b c d Vučković, Branko (21 July 2014). "Kragujevčanin autor nezaboravnih sevdalinki".
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- ^ M. Kusmuk (13 January 2013). "Dragiša Nedović: Šumadinac sa Bikavca" (in Serbian). Večernje novosti.
- ^ "Balkanologie". 2000.