Boris Papandopulo

Boris Papandopulo ( born February 25, 1906 in Honnef, † 16 October 1991 in Zagreb) was a Yugoslavian composer and conductor.

Life

Boris Papandopulo began his musical career as a choir director and conductor in Split (1935-1938 and Conductor of the Opera in Split 1968-1974), conductor and artistic director in Rijeka (1946-1948 and 1953-1959), choir director of the Radio Orchestra and the Opera in Zagreb (1940-1945), director of the Opera in Zagreb (1943-1945) and director of the opera in Sarajevo. His over 400 compositions include stage and orchestral works, chamber music, works for solo instruments, Sacred works, works for voice and choral works. Papandopulo combines elements of Croatian folk music with twelve-tone and high requirement of virtuosity.

Boris Papandopulo takes on the Croatian music history is a very special place. As the son of Constantine Papandopulos, a baron of Greek origin (whose father of the Russian Tsar Alexander has given as a reward for the suffocation of uprisings in the Caucasus as a whole genome City: Stavropol ) and the great Croatian singer Maja Strozzi he grew up in Zagreb, graduated from his schooling and spent nearly all his life exclusively in Croatia. After music studies at Franjo Dugan and the famous music teacher and composer Blagoje Bersa, in which he enjoyed instruction in composition to Papandopulo in Vienna built form in the master class of Dirk Fock at the New Vienna Conservatory as a conductor. After his death he was buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb.

Work

In his compositions he often mingled influences of jazz and folk idioms with Neo- stylistic from the 20th century such as the twelve-tone and did not shy away before trips back into the realm of the trivial and the Schlager music.