Petar Stojanović (composer)

Petar Stojanović
Portrait of Petar Stojanović
Born	(1877-09-07)7 September 1877 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	11 September 1957(1957-09-11) (aged 80) Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Occupation	Composer

Petar Stojanović (7 September 1877 – 11 September 1957) was a Serbian violinist and composer of operettas, ballets and orchestral music. (His birthday is also variously given as 6 September and 25 August.)

Life

He was born in Budapest and studied the violin there with

• Tigar (The Tiger; Der Tiger), comic opera; libretto by R. von Perger, Budapest, 14 November 1905
• Devojka na Mansardi (The Girl from the Garrett; Liebchen am Dach); libretto by Viktor Léon, 1917
• Vojvoda od Rajhštata (The Duke of Reichstadt; Die Herzog von Reichstadt); libretto by Viktor Léon and Heinz Reichert [de], Vienna, 1921
• Mirjana, ballet (1942)
• Devet čiraka (Nine Candlesticks), ballet (1944)

Orchestral

• Smrt junaka (The Hero's Death), symphonic poem (1918)
• Sava, symphonic poem (1935)

Concertante

• Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor, op. 1 (1904)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 (Prague, 1916)
• Violin Concerto No. 3
• Violin Concerto No. 4
• Violin Concerto No. 5 in D major, op. 78 (1944)^[3]
• Double Concerto for Violin, Piano and orchestra in A major, op. 110 (1950)^[4]

Chamber music

• Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 9 (published 1909)
• Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 15 (published 1913)
• Piano Trio, Op. 16 (published 1913)
• Jugoslovenski rondo i Humoreska (Yugoslavian Rondo and Humoresque) for violin and piano (published 1955)
• Sonata in C major for viola and piano, Op. 97

External links

• Free scores by Petar Stojanović (composer) at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

References

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