mercredi 11 janvier 2012

PIKA NA I Primož dedicated to Ivana Marija Vidovic



Hommage a Primož Ramovš, wonderful person and composer..........
This piece "PIKA NA I" Primož dedicated to Ivana Marija Vidovic, the Dubrovnik born piano student at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana to encourage her during the Dubrovnik war dramma which effected her so much.
In this piece maestro Ramovš described all the sorrow and the bitternes, suffer and injustice that a young pianist, far from her beloved town, had experienced...One can hear and feel bombing and all horrible noices from the recent war in Dubrovnik.
Primož Ramovš (1921 -- 1999) was a Slovenian composer. He was born and died in Ljubljana. Ramovš studied at the Ljubljana Academy of Music under Slavko Osterc; following this he studied in Siena under Vito Frazzi in 1941 and in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi and Alfredo Casella from 1941-1943. In 1945 he began working at the Slovene Acad...emy of Sciences and Arts, where he became director in 1952. He also taught at the Ljubljana Conservatory from 1948-1964. Ramovš's early works are neoclassical in style, but later works employ serialism and other modernist techniques...
— with Primož Ramovš and Ivana Marija Vidovic at Slovenska filharmonija - Academia philharmonicorum