GLAZBENA ŠKOLA VARAŽDIN - Poticaji i inspiracije
VARAŽDIN MUSIC SCHOOL - Initiatives and Inspirations

Summary/Abstract: When in 1828, the Varaždin Society of Music Lovers founded their Music School, their aim was to provide education of professional musicians for music bands that enabled continuous theatre operation. Primary documentation on the development of public, urban and civil education, as well as the comprehensive secondary documentation (including notes, newspaper cu ings, programmes) has been well preserved and analysed. They are an important source of items fi ing into the general image of Varaždin music culture. As an important musical centre, and during some time also political, with its churches, palaces and wealthy city houses, the city had always been an a ractive place of work for numerous musicians, reaching peaks of music education. For this occasion our wish was to emphasize the value of Varaždin Music School and its rich tradition, however not by simply collecting the already known materials, but by off ering sources and information for future synthesis. The submi ed papers are of various nature, and so are the persons they have been devoted to. This famous nursery of musical talents has again been acknowledged, but excellent musicians from other areas have not been neglected either. Virtuous music making and comprehensiveness of music and general culture is a common feature of all of those musicians, regardless of the generation they belong to - the singers Nada Pu ar-Gold, Vlatka Oršanić and Tomislav Mužek, and the harpsichordist Višnja Mažuran. Also presented are the ones who have le us but whose music activity had established strong links with Varaždin, e.g. Josip Vrhovski i Marij an Zuber. Some of the selected artists have presented themselves alone, in an interview, and off ered their views of certain music and life issues and the period they were developing in, issues relating to interpretation and performances, but also to views on the contemporary artists and music in general. These interviews and reviews represent work of the musicologists and soon to be graduate students of musicology, of whom some are connected to Varaždin. Thus, this confi rmation of importance and quality of Varaždin Music School does not only record its success but provides initiative and inspiration of its present students and teachers.

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