How to Create a National Opera? The Lisinski Case. Imaginary Memoirist Sketches with an Epilogue

Vjera Katalinić
2016 De musica disserenda  
Izvleček: Članek obravnava razmere v štiridesetih letih 19. stoletja, ko so rodoljubi zaprosili mladega skladatelja Vatroslava Lisinskega (1819-1854), da napiše nacionalno opero. Ni bil dovolj glasbeno izobražen za tako nalogo, pa tudi pesniki niso bili dovolj izkušeni s pisanjem libretov. V obliki izmišljenega skladateljevega monologa so predstavljeni njegovi dvomi in ravnanje, zasedba in izvedba njegove opere Ljubav in zloba. Ključne besede: Vatroslav Lisinski / Ignaz Fuchs, Ljubav i zloba,
more » ... rin, nacionalna opera, ilirizem. Abstract: The article deals with the situation in the 1840s, when the young composer Vatroslav Lisinski (1819-1854 was asked by Zagreb patriots to compose a national opera. He was not musically well-educated for such a task, and the poets were not experienced in writing librettos either. The author presents these issues, the ensemble, and the performance of Ljubav i zloba (Love and Malice) by way of an imagined monologue by the composer.
doi:10.3986/dmd12.1.05 fatcat:fujwjgaabzcjne7o4i4ykxwpnm