Božidar Širola

Bozidar Širola ( born December 20, 1889 in Žakanje, † April 10, 1956 in Zagreb) was a Yugoslav composer.

Širola completed until 1913, studying mathematics and physics. He then studied music in Zagreb with Ivan Zajc and until 1921 in Vienna under Guido Adler. He worked as a secondary school in Zagreb, was from 1935 to 1941 director of the Academy of Music, then to 1945 Head of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb.

He composed three operas, a symphony, a violin and a piano concerto, chamber works, four fairs, some cantatas, several song cycles and folksong arrangements. For the Oratory Život i Spomen slavnih ucitelja sv. Brace Cirila i Metoda he received an Honorary Mention at the World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1927 in Frankfurt am Main. In addition Širola wrote the first Croatian music history.

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• Alfred Baumgartner Propylaea world of music. The composers, Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3-549-07835-8, p 163
• NSK - Bozidar Širola ( 1889th-1956th )

• Yugoslavian composer
• Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1956
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