OTAC ANZELMO CANJUGA: "LOGORSKE” SKLADBE ZA ORGULJE (STARA GRADIŠKA 1947. – 1952.)
FATHER ANZELMO CANJUGA: “PRISON CAMP” COMPOSITIONS FOR ORGANS (STARA GRADIŠKA 1947 – 1952)

Summary/Abstract: Part of the heritage of f. Anzelmo Canjuga has recently been stored in the archives of the Capuchin Library in Osijek: the compositions for organs, written in the prison camp in Stara Gradiška (1947 – 1952). It is a fund of manuscript compositions for organs, which f. Anzelmo Canjuga wrote in the time of his imprisonment in Stara Gradiška. After his death in prison, his work was saved and undamaged thanks to priests B. Birt and Ð. Golubiæ. Later it was stored in the archives of the Capuchin Libraries in Osijek and Zagreb. These compositions, written in the prison camp 1947 – 1952 are very significant part of f. Anzelmo’s heritage in compositions. It consists of five music manuscript books, four of them carefully treasured in Osijek. Father Zvonko Pšak has been keeping them safe, and they are marked by the author himself under numbers 7, 8, 10 and 11. The manuscript music book number 11 was discovered later than the other three, in Zagreb, Dubrava, in the archives of the Croatian Capuchin Province of St. Leopold Mandić. F. Anzelmo’s opus from the prison camp impresses by its quantity and by the expertise of the priest, composer – from the Cantual, through autochthonous compositions for organs created in the spirit of Caecilian ideas, up to the best works of the opus: composition “Crkvena godina” (liturgical year) – four movements for organs (music manuscripts 8 – 10), “Missae” in A flat major (the end of 10 and 11) with no ending.

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