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Stevan Mokranjac

1856 - 1914

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Stevan Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Стојановић, Serbian pronunciation: [stêʋaːn stojǎːnoʋitɕ]; 9 January 1856 – 28 September 1914), known as Stevan Mokranjac (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Мокрањац, pronounced [stêʋaːn mokrǎːɲats]) was a Serbian composer and music educator. Born in Negotin in 1856, Mokranjac studied music in Belgrade, Munich, Rome and Leipzig while in his twenties. Later, he became the conductor of the Belgrade Choir Society and founder of the Serbian School of Music and the first Serbian string quartet, in which he played the cello. He left Belgrade at the beginning of World War I and moved to Skopje, where he died on 28 September 1914. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stevan Mokranjac is the 664th most popular composer (down from 556th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Serbia (down from 124th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 664 out of 1,451Before him are Boris Blacher, Andrzej Panufnik, Anton Walter, Agustín Lara, Charles Lecocq, and Georg Joseph Vogler. After him are Paul Wranitzky, Jean-François Dandrieu, Curt Sachs, Wilhelm Kienzl, Elfrida Andrée, and François-Joseph Fétis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 61Before him are Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Karl Lamprecht, José Batlle y Ordóñez, Louise Catherine Breslau, Dimitar Blagoev, and Alexander Izvolsky. After him are Karl Krumbacher, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Yu Kil-chun, Semyon Alapin, and Felix Mottl. Among people deceased in 1914, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 57Before him are John Henry Poynting, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, John Muir, Theodor Lipps, Delmira Agustini, and Amélie Lundahl. After him are Yu Kil-chun, Roque Sáenz Peña, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Giovanni Sgambati, Félix Bracquemond, and Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 141 out of 661Before him are Svetozar Gligorić (1923), Vetranio (300), Šaban Bajramović (1936), Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia (1819), Dragan Nikolić (1943), and Đuro Daničić (1825). After him are Slobodan Jovanović (1869), Đura Jakšić (1832), Milena Pavlović-Barili (1909), Petar Bojović (1858), Mór Than (1828), and Bogdan Bogdanović (1922).

Among COMPOSERS In Serbia

Among composers born in Serbia, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 2Before him are Paul Abraham (1892). After him are Stevan Hristić (1885), Sanja Ilić (1951), and Isidora Žebeljan (1967).