Petar Stojanović (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.)

He was born in Budapest and studied the violin there with Jenő Hubay. At the Vienna Conservatory, he studied violin with Jakob Grün and composition with Robert Fuchs and Richard Heuberger. In 1925, he became professor of violin in Belgrade, where he lived until his death.[1] A music college in the town of Ub is named after him.[2]

Selected works

Stage
Orchestral
Concertante
Chamber music

External links

References

  1. Sadie, Stanley (ed) (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol 4, p.547. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2.
  2. Muzička škola "Petar Stojanović" UB website
  3. Video on YouTube
  4. Video on YouTube


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 27, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.