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Lucijan Marija Škerjanc: Critic of the Jutro newspaper
from 1927 to 19421
Darja Koter
Univerza v Ljubljani
University of Ljubljana
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900–1973) was one of the most active writers of
music criticism and essays in the history of Slovene music, with a career
that ran from the end of the First World War until the early 1970s.1 His
name brings up more than 700 hits in the Digital Library of the Nation-
al and University Library in Ljubljana.2 I should mention that he also pub-
lished outside Slovenia and wrote numerous accompanying texts for con-
certs that have not been digitised and are not covered by the present paper.3
The focus of attention here will be on the period 1927–1942, when Škerjanc
published the bulk of his critical writings in the Ljubljana newspaper Jutro.
He focused above all on instrumental, vocal and vocal-instrumental con-
certs, while, with a few rare exceptions, opera and operetta performanc-
es were not the object of his professional attention, perhaps because musi-
cal events of this type were covered by other writers such as Stanko Vurnik,
Slavko Osterc and Vilko Ukmar, among others.
Škerjanc’s musical career begin with family and church singing and the
old upright piano he received as a present on his twelfth birthday. His curi-
1 This paper is part of Slovenian Research Agency programme P6-0376, Theatrical and
Interdisciplinary Artistic Research.
2 Thanks are due to my colleague Zoran Krstulović who kindly drew my attention to
the sheer number of reviews written by Škerjanc and to the fact that the dLib.si web-
site of the National and University Library does not cover all of his critical writings.
3 Cf. Tatjana Kralj, ed., Stoletnica rojstva L. M. Škerjanca (Ljubljana: Fundacija Lucija-
na Marije Škerjanca, Ustanova za ohranjanje kulturne dediščine, 2000), 78–88.
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Lucijan Marija Škerjanc: Critic of the Jutro newspaper
from 1927 to 19421
Darja Koter
Univerza v Ljubljani
University of Ljubljana
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900–1973) was one of the most active writers of
music criticism and essays in the history of Slovene music, with a career
that ran from the end of the First World War until the early 1970s.1 His
name brings up more than 700 hits in the Digital Library of the Nation-
al and University Library in Ljubljana.2 I should mention that he also pub-
lished outside Slovenia and wrote numerous accompanying texts for con-
certs that have not been digitised and are not covered by the present paper.3
The focus of attention here will be on the period 1927–1942, when Škerjanc
published the bulk of his critical writings in the Ljubljana newspaper Jutro.
He focused above all on instrumental, vocal and vocal-instrumental con-
certs, while, with a few rare exceptions, opera and operetta performanc-
es were not the object of his professional attention, perhaps because musi-
cal events of this type were covered by other writers such as Stanko Vurnik,
Slavko Osterc and Vilko Ukmar, among others.
Škerjanc’s musical career begin with family and church singing and the
old upright piano he received as a present on his twelfth birthday. His curi-
1 This paper is part of Slovenian Research Agency programme P6-0376, Theatrical and
Interdisciplinary Artistic Research.
2 Thanks are due to my colleague Zoran Krstulović who kindly drew my attention to
the sheer number of reviews written by Škerjanc and to the fact that the dLib.si web-
site of the National and University Library does not cover all of his critical writings.
3 Cf. Tatjana Kralj, ed., Stoletnica rojstva L. M. Škerjanca (Ljubljana: Fundacija Lucija-
na Marije Škerjanca, Ustanova za ohranjanje kulturne dediščine, 2000), 78–88.
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