Vasilije mokranjac biography

Boban Martic, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Document Type Article

This version of the dissertation has been withdrawn.

The ProQuest version remains available at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI3349559/
A Doctoral Document Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, Major: Music.

Under the Supervision of Professor Mark Clinton. Lincoln, Nebraska: March 2009. Copyright (c) 2009 Boban Martic.

Abstract

Vasilije Mokranjac (born in Belgrade, Serbia, 1923, died in Belgrade, 1984) was a Serbian composer whose works profoundly influenced Serbian national music in the twentieth century.

He belongs to the generation of Serbian composers who began their studies just after Second World War. After the avant-garde movement in Serbia that lost momentum even before Second World War, composers, perhaps as a