Jump to content

Dejan Despić

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by KasparBot (talk | contribs) at 16:16, 25 February 2016 (migrating Persondata to Wikidata, please help, see challenges for this article). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Dejan Despić

Dejan Despić (born 11 May 1930 in Belgrade) is a Serbian composer, author, music theoretician and pedagogue.

Biography

Despić studied composition with Marko Tajčević and conducting with Mihajlo Vukdragović 1950-1955 at the Music Academy in Belgrade.[citation needed] After his studies, he devoted himself to composing and teaching. From 1956-1965 he was teacher at “Mokranjac” music school in Belgrade and from 1956-1995 as a Professor at the Belgrade Music Academy, today (FMU).[citation needed]

Despić is a full member of the Serbian Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU).[citation needed] From 1999-2012 he was Head of the Department of Fine Arts and Music.[citation needed]

Despić is the author of more than 240 compositions, including an opera - as well as numerous textbooks (music theory, harmony, harmony-analysis, orchestration) for the school and university level, but also in the field of scientific and theoretical studies.[citation needed] His compositions are published by the Musikverlag Brandstätter Köln-(bry-music.de)[1]

References