Lojze Lebič
Lojze Lebič (born 23 August 1934) is a Slovenian composer and conductor of choral and instrumental music.
Life
[edit]Lebič was born on 23 August 1934 in Prevalje, in the Carinthia region of Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia). He attended the University of Ljubljana for a bachelor's degree in archaeology and the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he studied with composition with Marjan Kozina and conducting with Danilo Švara.[1] He was the youngest member of the Pro musica viva group, a group of composers based in Ljubljana that was advocated for Slovenian modernism.[2]
Music
[edit]Lebič's early style was fairly traditional, but his work from after 1965 demonstrates the influence of the European avant-garde.[3] The opening of Slovenia to foreign travel in the 1950s and 60s allowed for greater musical and cultural exchange with the rest of Yugoslavia and Europe, encouraging the development of a Slovenian avant garde. Lebič's 1965 works Meditacije za dva for viola and cello and the cantata Požgana trava are examples of his use of new melodic and vocal techniques.[4] Later, he developed a style that balanced respect for traditional culture with cosmopolitan modernism.[2]
Works
[edit]- Per Archi (Za Golala) for string orchestra (2009)
- Invocation/ à Primož Ramovš (clarinet and piano), commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
- Meditacije za dva (Meditations for Two) for viola and cello (1965, revised 1972)
- Rubato per viola for viola solo (1989)
- Hvalnica svetu (In Praise of the World) for double choir, piano four-hands and percussion (1988)
Awards
[edit]In 1967, he was awarded the Prešeren Award for conducting.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Hostnik, Tomaž (2016). Lojze Lebič One of the greatest overlooked composers of our time? (1. Auflage ed.). Saarbrücken. ISBN 978-3-639-64336-7. OCLC 953292848.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Samson, Jim (2013). Music in the Balkans. Balkan studies library. Boston: Brill. p. 486. ISBN 978-90-04-25037-6.
- ^ O'Loughlin, Niall (1983-12-01). "The Music of Lojze Lebič". Musicological Annual. 19 (1): 71–81. doi:10.4312/mz.19.1.71-81. ISSN 2350-4242.
- ^ O'Loughlin, Niall (2004). "Slovenian Music in its Central European Context: the 20th-century experience". Musicological Annual. 40 (1–2): 267–276. doi:10.4312/mz.40.1-2.267-276. ISSN 2350-4242.
- ^ Lebic, Hanka (2000). Lojze Lebic: Katalog del/ Catalogue of Works.
Further reading
[edit]- Barbo, Matjaz. “Music as a Language of Globalisation? The Metalinguistic Context of Lebic’s Music.” Muzikološki zbornik 43, no. 1 (2007): 187–192.
- Lojze Lebič (1993) From generation to generation the spirit seeks the way: Slovene musical Creativity in the past and today, Nationalities Papers, 21:1, 145-155, DOI: 10.1080/00905999308408264
- Pompe, Gregor. “Sacred Rituality and Mysticism in the Service of the Awakening of National Identity. Baltic-Balkan Parallels in the Works of B. Kutavicius, L. Lebic and V. Tormis.” Muzikološki zbornik 50, no. 2 (2014): 111–125.
