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glasbena kritika – nekoč in danes | music criticism – yesterday and today
The topic of city music came up for discussion in the city budget at the
proposal of the city music committee, but this issue was raised in Svjetlo
on several occasions already in March 1899, feeling the “pulse” of the pub-
lic.45 According to articles from the second part of the year, we learn that
the founding of the city’s music as a “little harmonia” that could play at the
dances and parties did not happen due to a lack of musicians, as well as a
lack of will and support,46 but the management of the Singing Society “Zora”
managed to agree with the command of Cattinelli’s 96th Infantry Regiment
that a part of its military band would be stationed in the city until spring.47
Competitions
Given that the people of Karlovac were enterprising in their work for the
“people’s cause,” it is not surprising that in Karlovac newspapers we find an-
nouncements or information about calls for compositions as an encour-
agement to musical creativity. The earliest example can be found in the
newspaper Glasonoša in 1862, in which Ivan Trnski’s text “Slava mlados-
ti” [Glory of Youth]48 was published immediately before the poet’s visit to
Karlovac.49 The prize was five imperial ducats, and applications were sent to
the Glasonoša editorial office. The committee for evaluating the submitted
works comprised Oton Hauska (1809–1868),50 the city’s Kapellmeister and
composer, Antun Supan, the director of the Karlovac Singing Society at the
time, and Janko Modrušan, as a member. The youth for whom the compo-
sition was intended were especially asked to:
try to understand well every line of this beautiful poem, to think prop-
erly in their time and to act according to the spirit and intention of the
poet in their life. Dashing youth, dear younglings! May this song be a
wake-up song and an incentive for all-round progress, development and
glorification of your people!51
45 Anon., “Gradska glasba,” Svjetlo 14, no. 10 (5 March 1899): 1; Anon., “Mala pitanja,”
Svjetlo 14, no. 12 (19 March 1899): 1–2.
46 Cf. Anon., “Glasba u Karlovcu,” Karlovački glasnik 2, no. 43 (20 October 1900): 3.
47 Anon., “Glasba,” Karlovački glasnik 2, no. 48 (24 November 1900): 3.
48 Anon., “Slava mladosti,” Glasonoša 2, no. 5, special supplement (15 January 1862).
49 See: Anon., “Prošle sriede sretno nam prispje,” Glasonoša 2, no. 10 (2 February 1862):
6.
50 Ivona Ajanović-Malinar, “Hauska, Oton,” Hrvatski biografski leksikon, internet edi-
tion, 2002, https://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=7322.
51 “da nastoji dobro svaku riečcu ove preliepe pjesme shvatiti, valjano razmisliti i u svo-
je doba prema duhu i nakani pjesnika u životu postupati. Mladeži čila, omladino
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The topic of city music came up for discussion in the city budget at the
proposal of the city music committee, but this issue was raised in Svjetlo
on several occasions already in March 1899, feeling the “pulse” of the pub-
lic.45 According to articles from the second part of the year, we learn that
the founding of the city’s music as a “little harmonia” that could play at the
dances and parties did not happen due to a lack of musicians, as well as a
lack of will and support,46 but the management of the Singing Society “Zora”
managed to agree with the command of Cattinelli’s 96th Infantry Regiment
that a part of its military band would be stationed in the city until spring.47
Competitions
Given that the people of Karlovac were enterprising in their work for the
“people’s cause,” it is not surprising that in Karlovac newspapers we find an-
nouncements or information about calls for compositions as an encour-
agement to musical creativity. The earliest example can be found in the
newspaper Glasonoša in 1862, in which Ivan Trnski’s text “Slava mlados-
ti” [Glory of Youth]48 was published immediately before the poet’s visit to
Karlovac.49 The prize was five imperial ducats, and applications were sent to
the Glasonoša editorial office. The committee for evaluating the submitted
works comprised Oton Hauska (1809–1868),50 the city’s Kapellmeister and
composer, Antun Supan, the director of the Karlovac Singing Society at the
time, and Janko Modrušan, as a member. The youth for whom the compo-
sition was intended were especially asked to:
try to understand well every line of this beautiful poem, to think prop-
erly in their time and to act according to the spirit and intention of the
poet in their life. Dashing youth, dear younglings! May this song be a
wake-up song and an incentive for all-round progress, development and
glorification of your people!51
45 Anon., “Gradska glasba,” Svjetlo 14, no. 10 (5 March 1899): 1; Anon., “Mala pitanja,”
Svjetlo 14, no. 12 (19 March 1899): 1–2.
46 Cf. Anon., “Glasba u Karlovcu,” Karlovački glasnik 2, no. 43 (20 October 1900): 3.
47 Anon., “Glasba,” Karlovački glasnik 2, no. 48 (24 November 1900): 3.
48 Anon., “Slava mladosti,” Glasonoša 2, no. 5, special supplement (15 January 1862).
49 See: Anon., “Prošle sriede sretno nam prispje,” Glasonoša 2, no. 10 (2 February 1862):
6.
50 Ivona Ajanović-Malinar, “Hauska, Oton,” Hrvatski biografski leksikon, internet edi-
tion, 2002, https://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=7322.
51 “da nastoji dobro svaku riečcu ove preliepe pjesme shvatiti, valjano razmisliti i u svo-
je doba prema duhu i nakani pjesnika u životu postupati. Mladeži čila, omladino
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