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The Composer’s Association of Macedonia in the past and present …
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of Macedonia 1947–1992: Macedonian Composers and Musicologists, we
came to the conclusion that among the most prolific composers whose
musical works were printed before the independence of the Republic of
Macedonia are: P. Bogdanov-Kočko (with 33 works), Vlastimir Nikolovski
(29), Toma Prošev and Risto Avramovski (24), Sotir Golabovski (23), Tra-
jko Prokopiev and Tomislav Zografski (20), Toma Mančev (19) and Stojče
Toševski (18).
During the period of the Society’s greatest creative, organisational and
social activity, a major natural disaster occurred. This was the earthquake
that damaged almost all musical institutions in Skopje on July 26, 1963. In
the following years, all of the Society’s activities were aimed at solving the
basic problems of Macedonian composers. Thanks to the high maturity of
the Composer’s Union of Yugoslavia, that is, to all the member associations
that showed a willingness to help Macedonian composers, aid was urgent-
ly sent in the form of tents and other necessary materials, and temporary
accommodation was also provided for the most vulnerable families in the
Union’s building in Belgrade and at a resort in Bled. In addition, compos-
ers from Yugoslavia waived 2% of their copyrights over the next three years,
after which the collected funds (10,122,715 dinars) were used to resolve the
housing issues faced by Composers’ Association. After the damage caused
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by the earthquake had been overcome, the association restarted its pub-
lishing activities. The significant contribution to the production and dis-
tribution of Macedonian musical works was made with the recording of 12
gramophone records, which were realised as part of a project entitled An-
thology of Macedonian Music. 17
15 For more information, see: ibid., 26–39.
16 Ibid., 14.
17 Those are: T. Skalovski, T. Prokopiev, P. Bogdanov-Kočko, Mihajlo Nikolovski, Sto-
jan Stojkov, Vlastimir Nikolovski, T. Zografski, Dimče Nikoleski, R. Avramovski,
Anthology of Macedonian Music – Choral Music, no. 1 (Skopje: Society of Compos-
ers of Macedonia, s.a.), vinyl; Atanas Badev, T. Skalovski, T. Prokopiev, D. Nikoleski,
V. Nikolovski, S. Toševski, Aleksandar Lekovski, Dragoslav Ortakov, Anthology of
Macedonian Music – Choral Music, no. 2 (Skopje: Society of Composers of Macedo-
nia, s.a.), vinyl; V. Nikolosvki, T. Skalovski, R. Avramovski, T. Prokopiev, T. Prošev,
S. Stojkov, Anthology of Macedonian Music – Solo Music, no. 3 (Skopje: Society of
Composers of Macedonia, s.a.), vinyl; R. Avramovski, S. Stojkov, V. Nikolovski, S.
Golabovski, Anthology of Macedonian Music – Music for Piano, no. 4 (Skopje: So-
ciety of Composers of Macedonia, s.a.), vinyl; T. Zografski, T. Skalovski, S. Stojk-
ov, T. Prokopiev, R. Avramovski, V. Nikolovski, S. Toševski, Anthology of Macedo-
nian Music – Solo Song, no. 5 (Skopje: Society of Composers of Macedonia, s.a.),
vinyl; R. Avramovski and T. Prošev, Anthology of Macedonian Music – Music for Or-

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