Croatian Music-Historiographical Syntheses in the First Half of the 20th Century
Croatian Music-Historiographical Syntheses in the First Half of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: This paper has developed as a result of the research done in the framework of the scholarly project Croatian music historiography before 1945, which has been funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia. So far, the research in music historiography of the 19th century has been concluded. A completed bibliography includes works by Croatian authors active in Croatia or abroad as well as works by authors from other countries who dealt with historical issues related to Croatian music. A sum of more than 3000 recorded relevant bibliographic units so far might provide evidence of a multiple increase of the number of music-historiographical sources compared to the 19th century (around 460 were published altogether), and through analytical approach it has already been determined in this moment of the research that a great number of them surpass the previous period in its scholarly and/or professional relevance. Since Croatian music historiography of the first half of the 20th century was much more professionalized than that of the 19th century, its results were more respectable. This is seen in numerous articles and studies as well as in the music-historiographical syntheses. While in the 19th century only one general music history was written (but not published) in the period between 1911 and 1944 three general music histories and five national histories were published. Four of them dealt with Croatian and one with Slovakian music history. Finally, a book on Croatian music history by non-Croatian author Ivan Kamburov was published in Sofia in 1942. The authors of general music histories were Stjepan Hadrović (1911), Josip Andreis (1942) and Hubert Pettan (1942, 21943), of Croatian music histories Božidar Širola (1922, 1942), Branimir Ivakić (1930), and Hubert Pettan (1944), and of Slovakian Josip Andrić (1944). Structural models and/or concepts, including ideological ones, are going to be displayed in the paper.

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