Pavle Dešpalj

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Pavle Dešpalj
Background information
Born(1934-06-18)18 June 1934
Blato, Korčula, Yugoslavia
Died16 December 2021(2021-12-16) (aged 87)
Zagreb, Croatia

Pavle Dešpalj (18 June 1934 – 16 December 2021) was a Croatian composer and conductor.[1]

Biography

Pavle Dešpalj graduated from

Music Academy in Zagreb where he studied composition with Prof. Stjepan Šulek
. In 1961 he founded
Croatian National Theatre
's Opera and Ballet.

Pavle Dešpalj led Zagreb's orchestras on numerous tours around Europe, America and the Far East. He was a guest conductor of many prestigious foreign symphonic orchestras in Luxembourg, Toulouse, Milan, Frankfurt, Bratislava, Salzburg, Budapest, Bucharest and Tallinn. He also conducted the Royal London Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow's Russian National Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Festival Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonics, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Tokyo and Yokohama Operas.

He recorded for

Opus
(Bratislava), as well as for Croatian, Slovenian and Hessischer Runfunkt (Frankfurt) radio stations.

Dešpalj's most often played and recorded works are Passacaglia and Fugue for piano and strings, Three Choral Preludes for Chamber Orchestra, Variations for Orchestra, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings, Concerto for Cello and Strings and Two Fiddlers' Whims.

Pavle Dešpalj was a member of international juries for conducting competitions in

Tokyo National University, regular member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and its vice president (since 1 January 2004).[1][2]

He died in Zagreb on 16 December 2021, at the age of 87.[3][4]

Awards

Pavle Dešpalj won numerous awards: The City of Zagreb Award (1965),

Croatian Ministry of Culture (1994), Porin Award (1997, 2002, 2005), Ivan Lukačić Award (1999), Croatian Ministry of Culture Award (2002), The Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), Judita Award (2005) and The City of Zadar Lifetime achievement Award (2006).[5]
In 1996

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b "'Pavle Dešpalj'". info.hazu.hr. HAZU.
  2. ^ a b "'Pavle Dešpalj: Passacaglia and Fugue for Piano and Strings'". www.mic.hr. MIC.
  3. ^ Preminuo Pavle Dešpalj: Ravnao je i Londonskom kraljevskom filharmonijom (in Croatian)
  4. ^ "Dešpalj Pavle – HAZU". Info.hazu.hr. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Dobitnici javnih priznanja Grada Zadra u 2006". grad-zadar.hr (in Croatian). City of Zadar. 1 January 2006. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  6. ^ "'Pavle Dešpalj'". www.mic.hr. MIC.[permanent dead link]

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