Steven Wagner - Stevan Vagner, Podrum COLLEGIUM MELODIUM , World music museum in BELGRADE , Fabulous * OKTOIH * and Conductor Aleksandar Sasa Spasic , present Stevan Mokranjac is one of the most important Serbian composers today.
He was born in Negotin in 1856, died in 1914. His Skopje secular and spiritual choral compositions are woven into the cultural and musical legacy of Serbia and became part of history but also everyday musical practice, inspiring young artists and performers.
Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac was a choir conductor and educator. He praised and organized musical life in Belgrade after the successful musical studies in Rome and Leipzig; founded a music school Mokranjac in 1899 which still exists today and was its first director and professor of theoretical subjects.
It is solely the vocal composer and produced in the area of church and secular choral music. (15 handfuls most famous works that have emerged in the range of 26 years from 1883 to 1909).
Rukoveti represent the kind of choral suite inspired by folklore of different parts of the South Slavic region. At the melodies and rhythms from Serbia and Macedonia were created najlepse handfuls of which ten, with the theme of "whitening the linen" represents the culmination of Mokranjac creativity. Rukoveti from Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia, together with the coastal tunes and original choral composition (miniature) "Kozar" form the basis of its secular choral works. From spiritual works written in the Orthodox tradition, the
part of the concert repertoire Requiem in F sharp minor, Liturgy and others.
Having laid the foundations of ethnomusicology recording over 300 folk melodies from various parts of the country, Mokranjac opened the roads and a variety of other activities: he was a prominent conductor of the Belgrade Singing Society, with whom he traveled the country and abroad (Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria), founded the String Quartet in which i've played (1889) and together with Cvetko Manojlovic and Stanislav Binički laid the foundations Serbian musical pedagogy, osnivajuži Serbian music school (1899)
