Chamber music works by Logar and Gostuški

A concert of chamber music works by Mihovil Logar (1902-1998) and Dragutin Gostuški (1923-1998), organized by the SASA Board for the Preservation of Serbian Musical Heritage to mark the anniversary of the death of the two composers, will be held at the SASA Gallery on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. The authors of the program are Academician Isidora Žebeljan and Borislav Čičovački, PhD.

Composer, educator and music writer Mihovil Logar produced an opus of over 200 works in different genres of music, such as opera, ballet, symphonic music, concertos, cantatas, pieces for the piano and solo songs. As a prominent student of the so-called “Prague generation”, Logar is regarded as one of the most important composers that worked in Serbia and made a significant contribution to the development of the musical profession in the country.

The entire career of musicologist, aesthetician and composer Dragutin Gostuški was linked to the SASA Institute of Musicology. He was active as a composer until the early 1960s, producing an opus of around forty works of different genres. His most successful compositions have been performed many times, won awards both at home and abroad, and have been included in Yugoslav music anthologies and discographies. As a musicologist, Gostuški consistently followed two complementary lines, i.e., theory of music and musical criticism.