Marko Tajčević

Marko Tajčević
Марко Тајчевић
Born	( 1900-01-29)29 January 1900 Osijek, Austrian Empire
Died	(1984-07-19)19 July 1984 Belgrade, Serbia
Citizenship	Austrian Serbian

Marko Tajčević (Serbian: Марко Тајчевић pronounced [mâːrkɔ tǎːjt͡ʃɛʋit͡ɕ]; Osijek, 29 January 1900 – Belgrade, 19 July 1984) was a Serbian composer and musician.

Biography

Born in

In Zagreb together with three other composers, Tajčević prepared a concert in the series “Naša pucka lirika” (Our Folklore), which started in 1923. For this concert each of the composers wrote new songs for voice and piano based on folk music. Tajčević composed six songs for this occasion and the performance of one of them was so successful that the audience asked for encores four times during that same evening.[2]

During the period 1924-40, Tajčević worked in Zagreb as a

Works

Tajčević’s complete output totals fifty-four compositions, comprising works for solo voice, choir, chamber orchestra, strings, woodwinds, and piano. He also published books on theory and harmony. His book Osnovna teorija muzike (The Elements of Music Theory) has been extensively used in music schools in the

Piano works were the main compositional focus of Tajčević before the Second World War. After the war he began composing more often for strings, recalling his first musical steps with violin as his instrument. He wrote six works for strings, four of them titled divertimentos for three violins or string orchestra. Chaconne is his only piece for violin solo, and his only work for a wind instrument is Prelidijum i igra (Prelude and Dance) for flute solo. Vocal pieces (solo and choir) occupied his creativity throughout his life. He wrote songs for solo voice with piano and for female, male, children's, and mixed choruses. His last piece is Zagorska rapsodija from 1979 for mixed choir.[2]

Tajčević's works are not only recognized in Serbia and Yugoslavia, but also internationally. Articles about him have appeared in dictionaries and encyclopedias such as the

, Enciclopedia Salvat de la Musica, and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Some of his piano pieces— Sedam balkanskih igara (Seven Balkan Dances), Medjimurske (Songs from Mur Island), Srpske igre (Serbian Dances), and Prva svita (The First Suite) — were published in Yugoslavia (Prosveta, Frajt, Hrvatski glazbeni zavod) as well as in Germany (Henle Musikverlag, Schott, Hans Gerig Musikverlag), the former Soviet Union (Musgiz), and the United States (Rongwen Music, Inc., Warner Brothers, Broude Brothers, Ltd.). Some famous pianists - such as Rubinstein, Friedmann, Borovski, and Orlov — have included Seven Balkan Dances in their repertoire.

References

Sources

• Hollfelder, Peter (1996). Das grosse Handbuch der Klaviermusik. Nikol.
  ISBN 9783930656493
  .

External links

• Free scores by Marko Tajčević in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)