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The Composer’s Association of Macedonia
in the past and present: combining professionalism
and nationality

Nataša Didenko
Univerza “Sv. Ciril in Metod” v Skopju, Inštitut za Nacionalno Zgodovino – Skopje
“Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Institute of National History – Skopje

The beginning of the second half of the 20 century was characterised by
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the realisation of the ideals of the Macedonian people to obtain national
rights and their own state. The process of developing a constitution in the
new Macedonian state thus occurred within the framework of the Yugoslav
federation. As such, during this period, as the established academician of
legal sciences Vlado Kambovski says:

The development of the Macedonian state showed a series of deviations
in the realisation of the main, libertarian idea, dictated by the general
characteristics of the social, political, economic and legal system of the
Yugoslav federation. Nonetheless, at the same time there marked signif-
icant progress on a national-cultural and social level: codification of the
Macedonian literary language, the development of Macedonian litera-
ture, arts, education, science and culture, the formation of state institu-
tions and social activities, etc. 1
In creating the historical development of the newly formed Macedoni-
an state, with the laying of the foundations of national culture and educa-
tion, new perspectives for the development of musical culture opened up.
In this extremely important stage of its historical development, Macedo-
nia developed musical production and reproduction with equal intensity.
1 Vlado Kambovski, “Sedumdeset godini od prvoto zasedanie na ASNOM,” in AS-
NOM i makedonskata država: zbornik na trudovi od naučen sobir po povod odbeležu-
vanje na sedumdesetgodišninata od održuvanjeto na Prvoto zasedanie na ASNOM, ed.
Vlado Kambovski (Skopje: Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite, 2017), 7.

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