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The Sarajevo Period of Dane Škerl’s Artistic Activity

Fatima Hadžić
Univerza v Sarajevu
University of Sarajevo
Amra Bosnić
Univerza v Sarajevu
University of Sarajevo

Dane Škerl (Ljubljana, August 26, 1931–Bovec, May 4, 2002) was a Slove-
nian composer, conductor and professor. He graduated in composition in
1952 in the class of Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900–1973) at the Academy
of Music in Ljubljana. He furthered his studies in Austria and Germany,
where he spent a short period specialising at the electronic studio in Co-
logne. From 1949 to 1960, he worked as a conductor and teacher in music
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schools in Ljubljana. He was engaged at the Academy of Music in Saraje-
vo as a professor of composition and theoretical subjects from 1960 to 1970.
In 1970, he returned to Ljubljana, where he worked at the Academy of Mu-
sic as a professor of composition (serving for a time also as dean) until his
retirement in 1995.
2
Škerl was actively involved in various roles within the highest bod-
ies of the Society of Slovenian Composers and its publishing activities. For
many years, up until the dissolution of Yugoslavia, he also held numer-
ous positions in the Presidency, the Copyright Commission, the Commis-
sion for International Relations, the Supervisory Board, and other bodies
of the Union of Composers of Yugoslavia. He was regarded as a prominent
1 Milena Milosavljević-Pešić, Kompozitori i muzički pisci Jugoslavije: Članovi Saveza
kompozitora Jugoslavije (Beograd: Savez kompozitora Jugoslavije, 1968), 576.
2 Andrej Rijavec and Ivan Klemenčič, “Škerl, Dane,” Grove Music Online, 2001, https://
doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.25929.

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