Dragan Plamenac
Dragan Plamenac | |
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| Born | 8 February 1895 |
| Died | 15 April 1983 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Dragan Plamenac (born Karl Siebenschein; 8 February 1895 – 15 April 1983) was U.S. musicologist and composer of Croatian Jewish[1] origin.
Plamenac was born as Karl Siebenschein in Zagreb on 8 February 1895. His father, Robert Siebenschein, and grandfather, Josip Siebenschein, were leaders of the Israelites Zagreb community.[1] His father was also the president of Croatian Music Institute from 1919 to 1929.[2]
Plamenac studied and finished law school at the University of Zagreb. In 1912 he studied composition with Franz Schreker in Vienna. In Prague, 1919, he studied composition and piano. Plamenac also studied musicology with André Pirro at the Sorbonne in Paris and with Guido Adler, one of the founders of modern musicology, in Vienna. He took his doctorate in 1925 with the dissertation on Ockegem's motets and chansons.
In 1928 he began teaching musicology at the University of Zagreb as a private assistant professor. He was also the accompanist at the city opera in Berlin. In 1939 Plamenac went to the United States as the Yugoslav representative to the International Musicological Society Congress in New York. Plamenac decided to remain in New York due to frequent persecution of Jews in Europe and World War II. He became an American citizen in 1946. Plamenac was professor of music at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1954 to 1963. He received an honorary doctorate in 1976. In his numerous writings Plamenac distinguished himself as a prominent researcher and editor of early music, namely that of the 14th and 16th centuries as well as the music of Adriatic coastal areas in the Renaissance and early Baroque period. His studies and editions of manuscripts provide important insights into the practice of those periods.
Plamenac died on 15 April 1983 in Ede, Netherlands.[3]
In Plamenac's honor, Croatian Musicological Society awards every year Dragan Plamenac Award to best scientific achievement, primarily related to Croatian musical culture, Croatian or foreign scientists in the field of musicology.[4]
References
- ^ a b Snješka Knežević (2011, p. 104)
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- ^ Template:Hr icon Katalinić, Vjera. "Nagrada Dragan Plamenac". Hrvatsko
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Bibliography
- Snješka Knežević, Aleksander Laslo (2011). Židovski Zagreb. Zagreb: AGM, Židovska općina Zagreb. ISBN 978-953-174-393-8.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Snow, Robert (1977). Essays in Musicology: In Honor of Dragan Plamenac on His 70th Birthday. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-030-677-408-9.
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