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A score I picked up some time ago, that fits perfectly in this thread, ancient music from the Balkans.

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:A score I picked up some time ago, that fits perfectly in this thread, ancient music from the Balkans.

Pintaric Compositions for Klavier.pdf

Great, many thanks!

Regards.

Wow. Thank you.

Fortunat Pintaric was born in Cakovec, where he also finished elementary school. He continued his education in gymnasium in Varazdin. During these years he learnt first steps in music lessons and he met famous composer and guitar player Ivan Padovec. In 1815 Pintaric entered in novitiate and Franciscan monastery in Ivanic Klostar, and already in 1817 he went to Zagreb to study philosophy and theology. He was ordained on 31st May 1821 in Zagreb, where he also served his first mass. From 1826 he was guardian of Franciscan monastery in Zagreb. During this period he studied music with the help of Gjuro Wiesner de Morgenstern. In 1835 he came back to Varazdin and started to teach in gymnasium till 1852. During these years he intensively worked together with Ivan Padovec, whom he had known from his school days. Furthermore, Pintaric also participated in the Illyrian movement by composing apposite songs, mostly spiritual tunes in Croatian language. In 1849 Pintaric has published Knjiga bogoljubnosti karstjanske, sadrzavajuca pobo?nih molitvah i pjesmah [Book of Christian devotion, containing pious prayers and songs], which was a booklet consisted of prayers and sacral tunes, written in Croatian and meant for school youth. This probably was Pintaric s response regarding the contemporary struggle to introduce Croatian language and poetry in school system. Consequently, this booklet became an obligatory reading in contemporary schools. In 1857 Pintaric became secretary of the Province and in 1860 also guardian of the monastery in Virovitica. In this period he worked on cantual known as Crkvena lira [Church's lyre]. From 1866 he preformed duty of guardian of Koprivnica monastery, and he has died there on 25th February 1867. Fortunat Pintaric was known as a composer of vocal and instrumental compositions. Most of his work never was published. Many of his organ compositions were re-written and in this manner came to other organists, who gladly preformed them. Beside this, PIntariĆ has composed many reveilles and other patriotic songs, and in this way he followed path of many contemporary Croatian composers. According to the contemporary press and writings of coevals, these songs were quite popular, though none of them is completely preserved. His most valuable work was cantual Ckrvena lira, which is preserved only in transcription, since keepers did not store the original manuscript properly. All in all, Pintaric s opus one can divide into: masses, offertories, hymns, popular tunes, instrumental compositions, harmonisations and Crkvena lira.
Revue / Journal Title
Croatica Christiana periodica ISSN 0350-7823

Hello,
here are some recordings by Vladigerov and other Bulgarian composers.
Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/user/veseli601#p ... aSNiMT8iR0


Biljana

Thanks for the link, Biljana! I just listened to quite a few of the Vladigerov performances and they are beautiful. Speaking of YouTube, I found a number of recordings of the extremely rare Janis Medins "Dainas" there. Below are the links. The site also has the concerto which is well worth a listen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGr_FUGkm2A - Daina No. 14 (absolutely gorgeous!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5A64URrd0Y - Dainas Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2bhDLo-Np4 - Daina No. 18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vghOOEMZ39c - Daina No. 16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cne0I2_-0E - Daina No. 7

All best,
Frank

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Alfos has kindly posted in his thread some pieces by Balkan composers:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=68&start=520

Cheers

A couple of volumes of Bulgarian music - rare (but still in copyright - I did ask Malcolm about posting first)

Some neat teaching/sightreading pieces here!


Enjoy,


- G

Thank you Giwro,
these pieces are always welcome for my students.
Thank you

Biljana