Isidor Bajić

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Isidor Bajić
Died15 September 1915(1915-09-15) (aged 37)
OccupationComposer
EraRomantic

Isidor Bajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Исидор Бајић) (16 August 1878 – 15 September 1915) was a Serbian composer, teacher, and publisher.

Biography

He was born in

Austro-Hungarian Empire. A pupil of Hans von Koessler in Budapest, he taught at the Novi Sad High School, where he founded a music school and initiated the publication of the Serbian Music Magazine and the Serbian Music Library (an occasional edition of Serbian compositions). He was also interested in the melograph
. He died in Novi Sad.

His most important work is a romantic national opera

Serbian Sokol movement
-- Pesma Srpskih Sokolova ("Song of the Serbian Sokols").

Also, many poems by Milorad M. Petrović (1875-1921) that were set to music by Isidor Bajić became classics in their own right (Po Gradini mesečina, Zarudela šljiva Ranka, Moj jablane, Sve dok je tvoga blagog oka, and others) more than a century later.

See also

References

  • Mala enciklopedija Prosveta,I (1978), Prosveta,Beograd
  • Muzička enciklopedija,I (1977), Jugoslovenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb
  • Peričić, V.: Muzički stvaraoci u Srbiji [1969], Prosveta, Beograd

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