Српски Звуци – Serbian Sounds, Rhapsodies for Piano by Jovan Paču  (Presenting the Sheet Music Edition and CD)

Marijana Kokanović Marković

doi:10.5937/newso2463105K

Marijana Kokanović Marković University of Novi Sad, Academy of Arts

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2463105K

Keywords: Jovan Paču, Српски звуци, rhapsodies, piano

Abstract

The life journey of the medical doctor and musician Jovan Paču (1847–1902) brought together the various branches of his prolific and richly creative personality, providing him with a prominent place in the history of Serbian 19th-century music. Although his primary vocation was medicine, he had also acquired education in music from early childhood, also working, during his active creative period, as a composer, pianist, music teacher, and writer. This first printed edition of Paču’s piano rhapsodies titled Српски звуци (“Serbian Sounds”) comprises eight of his 12 rhapsodies, which are kept in manuscript form at the Archive of the Institute of Musicology at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. The edition also comprises a CD with recordings of the same works rendered by our renowned pianists and piano teachers (Dušan Trbojević, Zorica Dimitrijević Stošić, Dubravka Jovičić, and Mirjana Šuica Babić).

Author Biography

Marijana Kokanović Marković, University of Novi Sad, Academy of Arts

Marijana Kokanović Marković is full time Professor in the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology of the Academy of Arts at the University of Novi Sad. She graduated both in Music Pedagogy and Musicology from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where she also received her M.A. and Ph.D in Musicology. She has taken part in conferences in the country and abroad, and has published many papers as well as lexicography articles for the Serbian Biographical Dictionary, the Serbian Encyclopedia, Grove Music Online and Österreichisches Musiklexikon. She published a monograph The Social Role of Salon Music in the Lives and System of Values of the Serbian Citizens in the 19th Century (2014) and she is co-author with Lada Duraković on the book Franz Lehár ̶ Bandmaster of the Imperial and Royal Navy in Pula (1894‒1896) (2020). She co-edited Kornelije Stanković - Piano Music, Vol. 1 (with Danica Petrović, 2004), and the album of salon dances for piano- From Salons of Novi Sad (2010). She is co-author on the anthology 19th-Century Salon Music from the Balkans (2020). She is the recipient of the Stana Đurić Klajn Award in the field of applied musicology for editing and authoring all the accompanying musicological contributions to the collection of compositions by Jovan Paču, Serbian Sounds – Rhapsodies for Piano (2022). She has participated in projects in the country and abroad. The focus of her scientific interests is 19th century music and especially popular genres (salon music, operetta) in Serbian, Balkan and European contexts. She completed specialization courses in Vienna and Leipzig.