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Skladateljska društva nekoč in danes | Composers’ Societies Past and Present
ensemble received the status of a professional artistic collective within the
MNT. 11
In addition to the significant contribution to the establishment and
support of the above-mentioned institutions, on May 25, 1949, upon the rec-
ommendation of the Ministry of Science and Culture of the Government
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of the FPR Yugoslavia, a reorganisation of the Society’s work was carried
out. After this, the responsibility for the development, valorisation, affir-
mation and enrichment of Macedonian musical creativity has been divid-
ed into two societies. One of these societies took care of the promotion and
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professional survival of Macedonian musical artists, while the other was
responsible for uniting Macedonian composers and musicologists, perma-
nently preserving and affirming their musical creativity.
In accordance with our interests, we will now focus on the activities
of the Society of Composers of the People’s Republic of Macedonia, which
has been operating independently since the founding assembly was held on
June 19, 1950 in Skopje. Over the past eight decades, it has carried out its ac-
tivities through various historical periods where the thought and creativity
of Macedonian composers were conditioned by the rule of several different
social orders and political systems. Despite the fact that various socio-po-
litical processes of transition and transformation have had an impact on
the intensity and nature of its work, the Society has maintained its key
role in the development and promotion of Macedonian musical culture.
A great contribution to this was made by it publishing activity, to which
particular attention was paid after the establishment of the Institute for
Publishing Activities of Composers of Yugoslavia in 1959, headquartered
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in Zagreb. This marked the beginning of the more intensive publishing
of the musical works of Macedonian composers. Analysing the available
scores from the Collection of Musical Art at the National and Universi-
ty Library “St Kliment Ohridski” in Skopje and the data published in the
book by the author Marko Kolovski, namely the Composers Association

11 Dragoslav Ortakov and Fimčo Muratovski, Volšebniot Orfeј – 55 godini Volšebniot
Orfej (Skopje: Makedonski naroden teatar, 2003), 3–1.
12 Anton Eberst, 30 godina Saveza udruženja muzičkih umetnika Jugoslavije (Novi Sad:
Udruženje muzičkih umetnika SAP Vojvodine: Udruženje kompozitora SAP Vojvo-
dine, 1980), 10.
13 For more information see: Snežana Anastasova-Čadikovska, “Sojuz na muzičkite
umetnici na Makedonija,” in Makedonska enciklopedija, vol. 2, ed. Blaže Ristovski
(Skopje: Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite, 2009), 1389.
14 Kolovski, Sojuz na kompozitorite na Makedonija, 11.

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