TRADIClJA I POSTMODERNA
TRADITION AND POST-MODERNISM - THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF STJEPAN ŠULEK (1914-1986)

Summary/Abstract: Stjepan Šulek is one of the most versatile artists in the history of Croatian music. He was a composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher. His first works appeared immediately after the Second World War. In the continuity of Croatian music history Šulek stands between the neoclassicists from the period between the two wars on the one hand, and the generation of younger composers whom he taught composition and who are still active today, on the other hand. Šulek's work is extensive, and his mostly instrumental pieces have helped include him in an array of leading Croatian symphonicists. In the quest for his own musical expression, Šulek remained completely "immune" to the avantgarde search for new sound. Neither could he find satisfactory inspiration for his creativity in folk music. His orientation in style was a synthesis of sorts of baroque poli phony, classical form and romantic expressiveness.

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