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Curriculum Vitae
He was born on 19th March 1937. He attended a
classics-program secondary school and music school in Zagreb. He completed the
studies of music and Croatian language at the Teachers’ Training College and
went on to study at the Music Academy, University of Ljubljana. He studied the
piano with I. Dekleva, the horn with J. Falout, organ with P. Rančigaj,
conducting under D. Švara, and harmony, counterpoint and composition first
under Z. Grgošević and finally under L. M. Škerjanc in whose class he
also won his master’s degree. In 1964. he became a member of the
Slovenian Composers Association. For a while, he worked as a free-lancing
artist, about which Dr. D. Cvetko wrote in 1965: Especially his last
compositions are a significant contribution to the most progressive currents of
our music production... In 1967 he was appointed professor and director of
the music school in Bjelovar. 1970 he taught at the Music Academy, University of
Sarajevo as assistant professor, from 1972 when he founded and led the MOMUS
ensemble (MO-dern MU-sic S-arajevo). In 1977 he established the group MASMANTRA
and conected it with the electroacoustic workshop (EAR) within the Composers
Association. In 1985 he became full professor at the Sarajevo Music
Academy. In the course of 25 years that he spent working in Sarajevo, he
taught composition, orchestration, polyphony, music analysis, contemporary
notation and electroacoustic music. Dr. I. Čavlović wrote in 1990: At
a certain point in time, and not in a long while from now, we shall establish
the fact that Josip Magdić was the founder of a school of composition in a
milieu poor in composers. Josip Magdić stayed in Sarajevo in times of
most severe devastation of war, especially committed to his activities within
the Croatian Cultural Society NAPREDAK, and his scores published under the title
NOTES OF WAR ’92, as well as his works composed between 1992 and 1994, are an
expression of powerful spite and outcry against aggression. He has often been
appearing as soloist performing his own works on the organ on concert tours in
Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, USA. Since 1995 he
has been employed as full professor of theoretical subjects at the Music Academy
of the University of Zagreb. Over 200 works, that he composed for a wide variety
of ensembles, ranging from soloist, chamber, symphonic and vocal-instrumental to
electroacoustic, film and multimedia music, have been performed in nearly all
European countries, as well as in the USA, Asia and Australia. He has received
numerous prizes and awards for his oeuvre: Prešern Academy Award for the CONCERTO
for Flute and Orchestra (1964), Award for THE CONSTELLATION for Orchestra
(1969), Award of the 9th International Electroacoustic Music Competition in
Bourges for THE MUSIC for Clarinet, Saz and Electronics (1981), 6th April
Award of the city of Sarajevo (1986), Golden Circle Award of the
Cultural-Educational Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1987), SUBNOR 4th
July Award for A POEM TO PEACE (1988), Golden Plaque at the 4th
Sacred Music Days for the composition POPULE MEUS - IAM HIEMS (1998).
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It was in the town of
Ogulin, that celebrates in
the year 2000 the 500th anniversary of its foundation by the honourable
Bernardin Frankopan, where the opera singer of worldwide reputation Ilma de
Murska, also known as the Croatian Nightingale, and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić,
also called the Croatian Andersen, were born, as well as the composer and
organist, Josip Magdić.