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glasbena kritika – nekoč in danes | music criticism – yesterday and today
Lucija Konfic
Music in the Karlovac Press in the Nineteenth Century
Newspaper articles about music and musical culture in the “long” nine-
teenth century can provide us with a wide variety of information. On the
one hand, they were an expression of public opinion on certain topics,
while on the other hand, they shaped that opinion. At the same time, the
importance of the local press, which was very rich in the Croatian city of
Karlovac, especially comes to the fore with news about musical life and mu-
sical occasions. In addition to Der Pilger in German (1841–1847), the fol-
lowing newspapers in Croatian were published in Karlovac in the nine-
teenth century: Karlovački viestnik (1861), Glasonoša (1861–1865), Karlovački
viestnik (1866), Svjetlo (1884–1905), Sloga (1886–1888) and Karlovački glasnik
(1899–1903). In this presentation, special attention will be paid to the types
of newspaper articles related to music in the Karlovac press and the range of
their topics. An attempt will be made to answer the question of what news
about music reached the public, how it was presented and, consequently,
what its importance as a cultural and social factor was in the city of Kar-
lovac throughout the nineteenth century.
Keywords: Karlovac, music life, newspapers, 19th century
Darja Koter
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc: Critic of the Jutro newspaper
from 1927 to 1942
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. The focus
of attention is 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 concerts, while, with a
few rare exceptions, opera and operetta performances were not the object of
his professional attention, perhaps because musical events of this type were
covered by other writers such as Stanko Vurnik, Slavko Osterc and Vilko
Ukmar, among others. During the present period he published most prolif-
ically stand as a remarkable chronological overview of the concert calendar
and of general cultural life in Ljubljana between the wars and in the first
years of the occupation of the city, when concert activities came to an al-
most entire halt. Škerjanc’s critical writings are complementary accounts of
musical life, art and performance and a record of the reactions of the public
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Lucija Konfic
Music in the Karlovac Press in the Nineteenth Century
Newspaper articles about music and musical culture in the “long” nine-
teenth century can provide us with a wide variety of information. On the
one hand, they were an expression of public opinion on certain topics,
while on the other hand, they shaped that opinion. At the same time, the
importance of the local press, which was very rich in the Croatian city of
Karlovac, especially comes to the fore with news about musical life and mu-
sical occasions. In addition to Der Pilger in German (1841–1847), the fol-
lowing newspapers in Croatian were published in Karlovac in the nine-
teenth century: Karlovački viestnik (1861), Glasonoša (1861–1865), Karlovački
viestnik (1866), Svjetlo (1884–1905), Sloga (1886–1888) and Karlovački glasnik
(1899–1903). In this presentation, special attention will be paid to the types
of newspaper articles related to music in the Karlovac press and the range of
their topics. An attempt will be made to answer the question of what news
about music reached the public, how it was presented and, consequently,
what its importance as a cultural and social factor was in the city of Kar-
lovac throughout the nineteenth century.
Keywords: Karlovac, music life, newspapers, 19th century
Darja Koter
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc: Critic of the Jutro newspaper
from 1927 to 1942
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. The focus
of attention is 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 concerts, while, with a
few rare exceptions, opera and operetta performances were not the object of
his professional attention, perhaps because musical events of this type were
covered by other writers such as Stanko Vurnik, Slavko Osterc and Vilko
Ukmar, among others. During the present period he published most prolif-
ically stand as a remarkable chronological overview of the concert calendar
and of general cultural life in Ljubljana between the wars and in the first
years of the occupation of the city, when concert activities came to an al-
most entire halt. Škerjanc’s critical writings are complementary accounts of
musical life, art and performance and a record of the reactions of the public
296
