Dejan Despić

Dejan Despić
Dejan Despić in 2014
Born	(1930-05-11) 11 May 1930 (age 94) Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Era	Contemporary classical music

Dejan Despić (pronounced [dêjaːn děːspit͜ɕ], Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Деспић; born 11 May 1930) is a Serbian classical composer, author, music theoretician and pedagogue.

Biography

Despić studied composition with Marko Tajčević and conducting with Mihajlo Vukdragović between 1950 and 1955 at the Music Academy in Belgrade. After his studies, he devoted himself to composing and teaching. From 1956 to 1965 he was teacher at “Mokranjac” music school in Belgrade and from 1956 to 1995 he worked as a Professor at the Belgrade Music Academy (FMU).^[1][2]

Despić is a full member of the Serbian Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU).^[3]

Despić is the author of more than 240 compositions - with a special penchant for concertante genres and chamber music^[2] – and an opera, in addition to several scientific and theoretical studies, and numerous textbooks (music theory, harmony, harmony analysis, orchestration) for both school and university level.^[1]

Music

Despić has won many awards for his music; his "Manchester Trio for flute, violoncello, and piano, Op. 93" (1987) – composed specifically for a Manchester performance – and "Diptih, Op. 166, for English horn and chamber orchestra" (2005) – for which he won the "Mokranjac Award" – have been particularly singled out.^[2]

References

External links

• Official website Archived 2017-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Official publisher Archived 2017-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Biography at the MIC website^{[permanent dead link]}
• MuzickaCentrala.com (Serbian)
• Biography at the website of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts