13 articles in this issue
Katarina Bedina
The celebration of the anniversaries of Slovene composers is generally embarassing because we (unfortunately) rarely celebrate them and because we are aware that the person in whose honour the celebration is held will be after a short time forgotten again... see more
Ivan Klemencic
Slavko Osterc (1895-1941) was a modernist and avant-gardist, was the leader of the second historical avant-garde generation in Slovenia. During the period between the two Wars and during the first years after 1945 he was considered as a rationalist apart ... see more
Manica Špendal
Although Slavko Osterc spent only a part of his youth in Maribor he kept up with the musical development there through his friends, musical colleagues and pupils until death. In Maribor he received the basis of musical instruction at the teachers' trainin... see more
Leon Stefanija
In the literature dealing with the composer's life and work Slavko Osterc stands our as one of the composers who exerted a strong influence on the development of Slovene music. In spite of the undoubtedly deserved place which he occupies - along with Mari... see more
Marijan Lipovšek
The creative as well as the pedagogic work of Slavko Osterc is quite certainly related to the big stylistic changes marking the music of the second half of the former and the first decades of the present century. Among these abrupt changes clearly belong ... see more
Matjaž Barbo
The group of composers forming Pro musica viva was the first in Slovene music to start implementing new, modernist compositional principles. Already at the time of its arrival on the musical scene the group entered as a unified body with characteristic av... see more
Zoran Krstulovic
The symphony in C major "Ideals" is the only composition of its kind by Slavko Osterc. The work originated at the beginning of the composer's creative path, in the year 1922. The compositional means are almost wholly those handed down by the musical idiom... see more
Marija Bergamo
The contribution proceeds from two starting-points: (1) from the claim that between Osterc the composer and Osterc the idealogist there are divergences, (2) from the need that the key concepts of Osterc's aesthetics and poetics, such as avant-garde, atona... see more
Darja Frelih
In her contribution the author seeks to identify her attitude to Osterc's 3-part youth choruses written a cappella, which come from the years 1930-1940. She examines them from the viewpoints of the choice of the underlying text, of melodic, harmonic, rhyt... see more
Aleš Nagode
In the past years Osterc's personality and work were in many respects studied from one aspect only. On closer examination of the biographical material it turns out that he was in fact a personality with more than just one level of experience. Such was he ... see more
Borut Loparnik
The iconological model and the combinatorics of stylistic definitions used in Slovenia since the beginning of 1960s to elucidate the work as well as the life of Slavko Osterc have obliterated the reality of the composer's work and even more his aesthetica... see more
Jože Sivec
The centenary of the birth of Slavko Osterc, the pioneer of the Slovene musical 'moderna' (modern period), is an appropriate moment to try and as far as possible to present a bibliographic survey of everything that has so far been written about him. Such ... see more
The bibliography seeks to include as far as possible everything that Osterc wrote about music and musicians and is for the purpose of clear arrangement organized in two parts: I Writings, articles, polemics; and II Reviews, reports, talks. But understanda... see more