Bruno Bjelinski

Bruno Bjelinski (born on November 1st 1909 with Trieste and dead the September 3rd 1992 with Zagreb) was a Croatian Compositeur.

After a doctorate in right to the university of Zagreb, he studied the music with the Academy of music of Zagreb at Blagoje Bersa and Franjo Dugan. He taught itself with the Academy between 1945 and 1977. Its music, which makes of him a spiritual and Mediterranean cousin of Prokofiev and Roussel, can be described as direct and optimistic, the freshness of its style, which mixes wisdom and irony, the energy and the virtuosity of its orchestral writing lending itself as well to partitions of scale (symphonies, concertos, operas) as with musics for children. Bjelinski is the author of Opéra S, three Ballet S, 15 Symphonie S, a Cantate, parts for piano, of the melodies with piano or orchestra, of many sonatas and partitions of chamber music, as well as concertos and concertinos for piano, violin, viola, violoncello, bassoon, flute, two pianos or horn.

Works

Concerto for flute and cords, 1955
Ljetna simfonija ( Symphony of summer ), symphony n° 1,1955
Serenade for trumpet, piano, cords and percussion, 1957
Pčelica Maja ( Maya the Bee ), fairy-like opera according to Waldemar Bonsels, 1963
Sinfonia jubilans , symphony n° 4,1965
Peter Pan , ballet for the children, 1966
Sinfonietta concerting , for piano and orchestra, 1967
Musica Tonalis for oboe, bassoon and cords, 1968
Heraklo ( Hercules ), comic opera, 1971
Močvara ( the marsh ), opera, 1972
Zvona ( the bells ), opera, 1975
Orfej XX. stoljeca ( Orphée at the 20th century ), opera, 1981
Slavuj ( the nightingale ), opera according to Hans Christian Andersen, 1984

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