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George Stahuljak (Sv. Jana near Jastrebarsko, 1901 - Zagreb, 1975) was the son of Vladimir Stahuljak (Bjelovar, 1876 - Zagreb, 1960), the first of which is a family practice music was one of the professions. Specifically, Vladimir Stahuljak after studies in composition in Zagreb in 1904 went to Budapest, where the Conservatory M. Somogy graduated in composition. As with music education in Zagreb and gained a diploma teacher Croatian and German, was he open the possibility of serving in a number of Croatian cities. His first job was in St. Jana near Jastrebarsko, from 1900 to March 1903, where he on 16 July 1901 born son George. She followed the father's staff for the transfer and the family of the 1903rd to 1908th lived in Remete, from 1908 to 1912 in Koprivnica, from mid-August 1912 to February 1914 in Nail-Cernik above Susak and Susak, where the father, after slightly more than one year stay in Zadar (March 1914 to mid-1915) and refugees from Zadar, where is a Croatian patriot had to leave because of political denunciation, came back for a few months, before he appeared on the teaching position at the Teacher Training College in Petrinji, 1915. In Petrinja the family remained three years, from 1915 to 1925 .; in this period, Vladimir Stahuljak in Vienna passed the state exam and, in 1918, earned a degree professor of music. What followed was a short episode in Kragujevac, but from 1926 until his retirement in 1932, was a professor in Zagreb. This gives us the tracking professional times Vladimir Stahuljak seem necessary, because each of the communities where the family lived until 1915, and the composer George Stahuljak left traces.
George Stahuljak he attended from 1915 to 1919 in Zagreb Upper Town High School, who resided in a Catholic orphanage "Orfanotrofiju", since the family is forced to flee from Zadar, impoverished. After grammar school graduation first enrolled for the study of law, and simultaneously moved and the Conservatory of the Croatian Music Institute. Poor financial situation forced him to refrain playing at the cinema and thus was, from 1920 to 1924, provided livelihoods. However, the study of law it is not enough caught, so he left, enrolling at the Faculty of Philosophy with study groups of history and geography. He graduated in 1928, when he began working as a professor of history and geography at Zagreb's high schools. In this profession welcomed and retirement in 1956.
Coming from a family where music was part of everyday life, in which children with father cellist, composer, choir leader and organist and his mother, Paula, born Huber, a prominent singer, from childhood receive music initiatives and professional training, with the obligatory family home music making, any by George Stahuljak completely logical to devote himself to the study of music. Conservatory Croatian Music Institute, he attended five years, and teachers were his former prominent educators in music theory it is taught Cyril Junek, in playing the piano Vjekoslav Rosenberg-Ruzic, singing Milan Reizer, harmony is taught in the classroom Fran Lhotka, counterpoint and fugue in the class of Franjo Dugan., while he was in vocal composition taught Anthony Dobroni?, and instrumentation Blagoje Bersa. Already listed names top teachers and composers suggest good mastering musical material, and to continue their studies at the Zagreb Conservatory or the Royal Conservatory, then Royal Academy of Music (the same higher educational institution that has changed names three times since George Stahuljak, 1919, enrolled study, and today bears the name Academy of Music, University of Zagreb), was completed a degree, 1924. He placed the young composer and examination of singing and music before a special committee as it required the then practice, and has been qualified for the teacher in secondary schools.
One of the lasting active practicing music reprodukt?v? was for George Stahuljak organ playing in churches, which began publicly to engage more in the age of eleven, replacing his father on the organ, and the organ is and upon arrival to school in Zagreb in the church. Peter, where he led the church and women's choir. He led the choir cadets "orphanage", and activity organist, permanently in operation Catholic divine worship ceremonies concluded with more than two decades of organ playing in the parish church. Ivana in Zagreb Nova Ves, in the final period from 1956 to 1969. Thus organ playing and conducting choirs makes permanent component of life musicians, and should be added the very frequent activity Stahuljakovu piano accompanist, especially at concerts together with renowned violinist Miroslav Figure 30's of last century. But, what most distinguished him as a creative personality is his composing, he started more as a fifteen year old, writing his debut film, Fantasia for piano.
PhD. Zdenka Weber
Zagreb, 2010.
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