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Yugoslav-Soviet Union relations from the 1950s to 1970s …

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by Petar Konjović (1883–1970), Funeral music (Musiques funebres, 1955) by
Primož Ramovš, and Concerto giocoso for chamber orchestra (1956) by
Milko Kelemen (1924–2018). Finally, in 1976, Soviet “Melody” published
works performed by the leading Yugoslav symphonic orchestras: the Slove-
nian Philharmonic under conductors Oskar Danon and Anton Nanut, the
Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra under Josef Daniel, and the Belgrade
Philharmonic under Živojin Zdravković. In this respect, the collection also
included symphonic works such as Antinomia (1972) by Vitomir Trifuno-
vić (1916–2007), Funeral Music by Ramovš, Characters and Plots (Likovi i
plohe, 1967) by Dubravko Detoni (b. 1937), and the first movement “Flare-
up” (Buktinje) from the Fourth Symphony (1972) by Aleksandar Obradović.
After the symphonic music from the SFRY, the edition Choral Mu-
sic of the Peoples of Yugoslavia (Хоровая музыка народов Югославии) was
published on other LPs in the USSR by Melodiya. Among them was Musi-
ca noster amor, featuring compositions by Jacobus Gallus (1550–1591), Ivan
Lukačić (1575–1648), Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (1856–1914), Josip Štolcer
Slavenski (1896–1955), Todor Skalovski (1909–2004), Vlado Milošević (1901–
1990), and Trajko Prokopiev (1909–1979).
In addition to collaborations that involved concert practice, other
forms of cultural exchange were also realized. For example, pianist from
Croatia Ivo Maček (1914–2002) spent three weeks as an observer at the In-
ternational Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and the secretary of the
SAKOJ, Mihailo Vukdragović, spent two weeks as a guest of the Soviet

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