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Summaries

Petra Babić, Lucija Konfic
Between Music and Politics: The Role of Composers in Musical Societies in Continental
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Croatia in the 19 Century
The 19 century in Croatia was the time of the first institutionalisation of
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musical culture – the first music institutes were organised, as well as the
first music schools (independent of the “main schools”), and somewhat lat-
er numerous music societies (singing, instrumental, mixed). The dynamics
of their emergence is closely linked to the contemporary political situation,
and the activity within a particular society itself – in terms of public en-
gagement – meant more than just enjoying desirable entertainment, find-
ing solace in music making or the possibility of making musical education
more accessible to wider social strata. This paper will present different types
of music societies/associations founded throughout the 19 century in con-
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tinental Croatia, examine the dependence of their establishment in relation
to the then ruling political authorities, and in particular examine the per-
ception and role of composers in those societies. The research for this paper
was financed by the Croatian Science Foundation with project IP-2020-02-
4277 “Institutionalization of modern bourgeois musical culture in the 19
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century in civil Croatia and Military Border – MusInst19”.
Keywords: 19 century music in Croatia, music institutions, music
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and politics, Croatian composers

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