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interwar avant-garde, and music composed during the Second World War,
especially in concentration camps.
He is the author of several publications and studies devoted to Heinrich
Schenker, Alois Hába, Gideon Klein, and Pavel Haas. In 2024, he received
the Music Library Association’s Vincent H. Duckles Award in the Unit-
ed States for Pavel Haas: A Catalogue of the Music and Writings (Prague:
Bärenreiter, 2022), written in collaboration with Ondřej Pivoda.

Antun Tomislav Šaban (saban@hds.hr)
hat in Zagreb, Miami und Wien studiert, wo er 1998 sein Kompositionsstu-
dium abschloss. Seit 2001 ist er Generalsekretär des Kroatischen Kompo-
nistenverbandes (HDS). Er ist einer der Mitbegründer der European Com-
poser and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), des Dachverbands europäischer
Komponistenvereinigungen, der die Interessen von Musikschaffenden in
der Kreativindustrie fördert. Von 2013 bis 2019 war er außerdem deren Vi-
zepräsident. Zudem ist er seit 2007 Mitglied des Musikrats (CIAM) im In-
ternationalen Dachverband der Verwertungsgesellschaften (CISAC). Seine
Werke wurden von renommierten Orchestern, Ensembles und Solisten in
Kroatien und weltweit aufgeführt und aufgenommen.

Maja Vasiljević (elmaja2112@gmail.com)
holds PhD in sociology and an MA in musicology, and has been working at
the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
since 2011, where she is currently a Senior research assistant. Since 2003, she
has been a music critic on the second programme of Radio Belgrade. She
has recently expanded her interdisciplinary research on populism in Croa-
tia, Serbia and Montenegro as a researcher in the Horizon 2020 inter-con-
sortium project on populist impulses in Central and Eastern Europe af-
ter the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the Faculty of Philosophy, she has taught
History of Jazz, History of Rock, Sociology of Modern Life, and is current-
ly teaching the course on The Fall of Yugoslavia and Post-Conflict Transi-
tion. She publishes her work in national and international publications She
is the author of three books: Film music in SFRY: from politics and poetics
(2016, Belgrade) and Jewish musicians in Belgrade: from the Balfour Dec-
laration to the Holocaust (Serbian 2021, English 2023) in Belgrade by Hera
edu and Institute for Musicology SASA and Jews in cinema culture of Cro-
atia 1896-1945 (2024) by Profil in Zagreb. For her book about jewish musi-
cians she was awarded the „Stana Đurić-Klajn“ Prize 2022, for the most sig-

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