Silvije Bombardelli

Silvije Bombardelli (Split , March 3, 1916 – Zagreb , October 1, 2002) was a influential and important Croatian conductor , composer and theater worker. He studied music in Split and Belgrade. He started his conducting career in Belgrade and Novi Sad, continued in Split and Zagreb. He was the conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic, director of the Opera and intendant of the Croatian National Theater in Split. He played a versatile role in reviving the musical life of Dalmatia, where he played an important role in the artistic design of the Dalmatian Klapa Festival in Omiš. One of the first composers of film music in the SFRY and Croatia (Slavica, 1947, V. Afrić and Koncert, 1954, and Pod sumnjom, 1956, both directed by B. Belan). One of the founders and organizers of the Split summer; he is responsible for the creation of his artistic physiognomy, and also for the arrangement of concert life in the city of Split. – In his early work, he often uses a reciter and an orchestra (Javna ptica, 1939), sometimes joining them with a choir (Plameni vjetar, 1940). The symphonic suite Na Kuku-jezeru (1940) and the cantata Migration (1941) are from this period. He showed special preferences for musical and stage works; composed 6 ballets: Grave in the Wheat (1945), Stranger (1956), Blood Spring (1959), Poklade (1962), Oedipus (1971) and Carpet Snakes (1993), and the operas Adam and Eve (1966) and Bakonja (1986). Bombardelli composed both in a modernist spirit (atonality, dodecaphony) and in a realistic manner (war and post-war era, battle songs, etc.). An important place is occupied by the choral compositions Oj sokole, Govorenje Mikula Trudneg and others.