Antun Dobronić (Croatian pronunciation: [ǎntuːn dǒbronit͡ɕ]; 2 April 1878 – 12 December 1955) was a Croatian composer and pupil of Vítězslav Novák. He studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1910 to 1912. From 1922 to 1940, he served as professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music. His works show a strong streak of Croatian nationalism, which also is manifest in his writings on music. He sought to integrate high culture music techniques with traditional Croatian folk elements. Dobronić was a prolific composer. He composed eight symphonies and six ballets. He also composed operas, chamber music, an
Antun Dobronić (Croatian pronunciation: [ǎntuːn dǒbronit͡ɕ]; 2 April 1878 – 12 December 1955) was a Croatian composer and pupil of Vítězslav Novák. He studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1910 to 1912. From 1922 to 1940, he served as professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music. His works show a strong streak of Croatian nationalism, which also is manifest in his writings on music. He sought to integrate high culture music techniques with traditional Croatian folk elements.
Dobronić was a prolific composer. He composed eight symphonies and six ballets. He also composed operas, chamber music, and works for choirs.
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R.I.P Antun
Biography Dobronić was born on April 2, 1878, the ninth and last child of the family of Prošper and Barbara (née Selem). He had his first contact with music listening to two Jelsa (Hvar) brass bands. He had his first lesson in music from a priest, Pavao Matijević, and went on studying by himself with the help of various textbooks, and later on by correspondence as well. From time to time he went to Split to have lessons from the composer Josip Hatze. He studied to be a teacher in the Normal School in Arbanasi near Zadar. He had his first position as a teacher on Hvar Island in the villages of Gdinj and Vrisnik, then on the island of Vis, and in Drniš. He was very active in these places and founded and ran choirs and orchestras. He also wrote for the press, and had a number of articles about the advancement of education published, as well as about the theory and practice of music and music life. While he was school-teaching in Drniš, from his field research into vernacular singing, Dobronić wrote a lengthy study about the idiosyncratic form of singing practised in the Drniš region called ojkanje.…
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Oeuvre His oeuvre comprises more than 180 compositions for various ensembles, including 8 symphonies, 5 string quartets, 12 cantatas, a larger number of choral pieces, solo songs, 13 operas and 5 ballets, works for smaller ensembles and solo instruments. His musical style is characterised by a combination of the Neoclassicist form of expression and the features of the national course. The works for small ensembles gave him breathing space before going on with the big forms – the operas and the symphonies. He championed the idea that the symphony should make its way into opera, seeing in that the only salvation for the operatic form, and called his own operas symphonic dramas, dramatic lyrics or music-theatre tragedies. His vocal art ranged from the late Romantic vocal lyric to a reduction of the melodic line to such an extent that it would sometimes cross the border into recitative. In his symphonic works he painted the national melodies he used with bold orchestration and for the names of the movements he often used non-musical terminology of a programmatic nature. He wrote a large number of works for the choir, with particular attention being drawn by four collections containing more than 100 harmonised…
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8 symphonies
Karneval (Carnival) tonal portrait for symphony orchestra (1913)
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Jelsonski Tonci (Dances from Jelsa)
Beg Ivan-beg and His Faithful Woman, cantata for orchestra, choir, soprano and tenor solo
Requiem based on Old Croatian Folk Chorale of Kraljevica (1936)
Forward, cantata for choir, soloists and orchestra (1951)
Love Songs, four song cycle for soprano and piano Op 16 (1917)
Carnival Night, musical theatre satire in three acts (1945)
Stabat Mater, oratorio in two parts (letters honouring the pain and sorrow of the Virgin Mary) (1937)
Old Dances in New Attire, symphonic suite for chamber orchestra with folk instruments (1948)
Jernej the Servant, stage oratorio in three acts (six scenes) with preludes and interludes (1946)
The Fire of Passion, tragic musical theatre in three scenes (1933)
Dubravka, music for pastoral play by Gundulic (1922)
Equinox, opera in four scenes with intermezzo (1938)
Mother, epic musical theatre in two acts (nine scenes) (1948)
