Marij Julij Kogoj (Trieste, 20 September 1892 – Ljubljana, 25 February 1956) was a Slovenian composer and writer of Italian birth. He is noted for his expressionist music, including the opera Črne maske (Black Masks), work that was well received in 1920s Slovenia amid a flowering of avant-garde artistic, cultural, and political movements. As a young man, he studied with Franz Schreker and then Arnold Schoenberg. In 1932, schizophrenia ended his career prematurely. His music and milieu is receiving renewed attention in the 21st century, but he remains little known internationally.
Marij Julij Kogoj (Trieste, 20 September 1892 – Ljubljana, 25 February 1956) was a Slovenian composer and writer of Italian birth. He is noted for his expressionist music, including the opera Črne maske (Black Masks), work that was well received in 1920s Slovenia amid a flowering of avant-garde artistic, cultural, and political movements. As a young man, he studied with Franz Schreker and then Arnold Schoenberg. In 1932, schizophrenia ended his career prematurely. His music and milieu is receiving renewed attention in the 21st century, but he remains little known internationally.
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Biography and music Kogoj was born an orphan in Trieste, where he was misidentified as his deceased brother Marij (27 April 1895 – 31 January 1896). In 1910, he began composing as a self-taught musician while at school in Gorizia (1907–1914). He studied counterpoint and composition with Franz Schreker at the Vienna Music Academy (1914–1917) and then continued his studies with Arnold Schoenberg at Eugenie Schwarzwald's school (1918). In 1919, he married Marija Podlogar. Among the Slovenian avant-garde, Kogoj was an especially prominent figure between 1919 and 1922. He performed his own music as part of the September 1920 Novomeška pomlad (Novo Mesto Spring), an exhibition sponsored by Fran Windischer and painter Rihard Jakopič in Novo Mesto that brought together many avant-garde artists such as futurist poet Anton Podbevšek, painter Božidar Jakac, singer Zdenka Ziková, and poet Miran Jarc. This gathering is considered to be the beginning of the avant-garde in Slovenia. It arose from nascent futurist and constructivist artistic activity in the region, often with some left-wing political affinity. In 1922, Podbevšek, Kogoj, and theater critic Josip Vidmar issued a journal named Trije labodje (Three Swans) after the example of Der Blaue Reiter. Veno Pilon painted Kogoj in The…
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Discography
Complete Works for Violin & Piano, Črtomir Šiškovič (violin) and Emanuele Arciuli. (Stradivarius, 2000)
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Performances
Črne maske (Black Masks), performed January 2012
