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glasbena kritika – nekoč in danes | music criticism – yesterday and today
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc concluded his collaboration with Jutro with
one of his longest and most in-depth pieces from the entire pre-war peri-
od: a review of Verdi’s Requiem performed by Ljubljana’s foremost soloists,
choral singers and orchestral musicians in honour of the recently deceased
Slovene politician and patron of culture Anton Korošec. Škerjanc’s review
of Verdi’s masterpiece confirms his broad erudition, his rich journalistic
experience and his excellent knowledge of the artistic potential and abili-
ties of the Slovene musicians of the period. He described it as a unique high
point among concerts in pre-war Ljubljana and expressed the hope that
more concerts of this calibre could be expected in the future.31 Little did he
know that this would be the last major concert before the start of the Sec-
ond World War, something symbolically predicted by the title of the work.
Bibliography
Literature
Barbo, Matjaž. “Prvi koncert za violino in orkester (1927) L. M. Škerjanca,” in Glas-
ba, poezija – ton, beseda: koncerti, simpozij, spremljevalne prireditve [Slov-
enski glasbeni dnevi 2000], edited by Primož Kuret, 37–42. Ljubljana: Festi-
val, 2001.
Koter, Darja. Slovenska glasba 1918–1991. Ljubljana: Beletrina, 2012.
Kralj, Tatjana, ed. Stoletnica rojstva L. M. Škerjanca. Ljubljana: Fundacija Lucijana
Marije Škerjanca, Ustanova za ohranjanje kulturne dediščine, 2000.
Pernuš, Andreja. “Ustanovitev in delovanje Orkestralnega društva Glasbene mat-
ice v Ljubljani od leta 1919 do 1945.” Master Thesis, University of Ljubljana,
2009.
Sivec, Jože. “Škerjanc, Lucijan Marija (1900–1973).” Slovenska biografija. Lju-
bljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Znanstvenorazisk-
ovalni center SAZU, 2013. https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba
/sbi652648/.
Periodicals
Grabnar, Boris. “Lucijan Marija Škerjanc o svoji glasbi.” Tedenska tribu-
na 8, no. 50 (14 December 1960): 6. http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:
NBN:SI:doc-MLYRYJLE.
L. M. Š. [Lucijan Marija Škerjanc] “Koncert pianistke Karmele Kosovelove
v Ljubljani.” Jutro 8, no. 8 (11 January 1927): 4. http://www.dlib
.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:doc-U8N6UATH.
31 L. M. Š., “Verdijev ‘Requiem’,” Jutro 22, no. 31 (6 February 1941): 3–4, http://www
.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:doc-CARWGGFS.
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Lucijan Marija Škerjanc concluded his collaboration with Jutro with
one of his longest and most in-depth pieces from the entire pre-war peri-
od: a review of Verdi’s Requiem performed by Ljubljana’s foremost soloists,
choral singers and orchestral musicians in honour of the recently deceased
Slovene politician and patron of culture Anton Korošec. Škerjanc’s review
of Verdi’s masterpiece confirms his broad erudition, his rich journalistic
experience and his excellent knowledge of the artistic potential and abili-
ties of the Slovene musicians of the period. He described it as a unique high
point among concerts in pre-war Ljubljana and expressed the hope that
more concerts of this calibre could be expected in the future.31 Little did he
know that this would be the last major concert before the start of the Sec-
ond World War, something symbolically predicted by the title of the work.
Bibliography
Literature
Barbo, Matjaž. “Prvi koncert za violino in orkester (1927) L. M. Škerjanca,” in Glas-
ba, poezija – ton, beseda: koncerti, simpozij, spremljevalne prireditve [Slov-
enski glasbeni dnevi 2000], edited by Primož Kuret, 37–42. Ljubljana: Festi-
val, 2001.
Koter, Darja. Slovenska glasba 1918–1991. Ljubljana: Beletrina, 2012.
Kralj, Tatjana, ed. Stoletnica rojstva L. M. Škerjanca. Ljubljana: Fundacija Lucijana
Marije Škerjanca, Ustanova za ohranjanje kulturne dediščine, 2000.
Pernuš, Andreja. “Ustanovitev in delovanje Orkestralnega društva Glasbene mat-
ice v Ljubljani od leta 1919 do 1945.” Master Thesis, University of Ljubljana,
2009.
Sivec, Jože. “Škerjanc, Lucijan Marija (1900–1973).” Slovenska biografija. Lju-
bljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Znanstvenorazisk-
ovalni center SAZU, 2013. https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba
/sbi652648/.
Periodicals
Grabnar, Boris. “Lucijan Marija Škerjanc o svoji glasbi.” Tedenska tribu-
na 8, no. 50 (14 December 1960): 6. http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:
NBN:SI:doc-MLYRYJLE.
L. M. Š. [Lucijan Marija Škerjanc] “Koncert pianistke Karmele Kosovelove
v Ljubljani.” Jutro 8, no. 8 (11 January 1927): 4. http://www.dlib
.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:doc-U8N6UATH.
31 L. M. Š., “Verdijev ‘Requiem’,” Jutro 22, no. 31 (6 February 1941): 3–4, http://www
.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:doc-CARWGGFS.
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