Reception of Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac’s composing creativity in the musical life of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Austro-Hungarian period Cover Image

Reception of Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac’s composing creativity in the musical life of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Austro-Hungarian period
Reception of Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac’s composing creativity in the musical life of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Austro-Hungarian period

Author(s): Lana Paćuka
Subject(s): Music, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: Austria-Hungary; Bosnia and Herzegovina; musical life; Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac; reception; rukoveti;

Summary/Abstract: With the arrival of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Bosnia and Herzegovina encountered Western European social trends, which affected the shaping of musical life physiognomy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In this extremely intricate relationship between national and pro-European-oriented cultural trends, Serbian composer Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac had a special position as a unique musical phenomenon, since he was a composer whose musical talent imposed itself as an authority in strengthening the national musical expression and serving as a guideline for numerous BH artists.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 227-242
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English