Composers of the day: September 27

COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:

SEPTEMBER 27

BRUNHILDE SONNTAG - GERMANY

Born 27 September

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ANNA APPLEBY - UK

Born 27 September

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27 SEPTEMBER 2019

ISIDORA ZEBELJAN - SERBIA

BORN 27 SEPTEMBER

Isidora Žebeljan (born 27 September 1967) is a Serbian composer and conductor. He is a professor of composition at the Belgrade Music Academy and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Her music is highly acclaimed and she has won many important national awards, among them the Stevan Mokranjać National Music Award in 2004.

Isidora Žebeljan is also one of the most prominent Serbian contemporary composers of theatre and film music. So far she has composed music for more than thirty theatre productions in all significant theatres in Serbia, Norwegen, Croatia and Montenegro. For her work in the field of theatre music she was awarded the Sterija Award three times. She was also awarded the Yustat Biennial of Stage Design Award for best theatre music four times. In addition, Isidora Žebeljan worked on a number of film scores, including the orchestration of Goran Bregović's music for the films Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream and Underground (directed by Emir Kusturica), La Reine Margot (directed by Patrice Chéreau) and The Serpent's Kiss (directed by Philippe Rousselot). She composed the music for Miloš Radivojević's film How I was Stolen by the Germans. For this score she was awarded the Prize of the Film Festival in Sopot in 2011 (Serbia) and the FIPRESCI Prize of the Serbian Film Associoationin 2012.

Isidora Žebeljan also regularly appears as a performer (conductor and pianist) of her own works and of the works by other, mainly Serbian composers. She conducted concerts in London (with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields) and in Amsterdam (Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ), and performed as a pianist with Brodsky Quartet.

In 2017, Isidora Žebeljan has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

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The Miracle in Shargan by Isidora Žebeljan

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NANNA LIEBMANN - DENMARK
BORN 27 SEPTEMBER

Nanna Magdalene Liebmann (September 27, 1849 – May 11, 1935) was a Danish, music educator, music critic, concert promoter and composer. She studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music with Victor Bendix, Johann Christian Gebauer, J.P.E. Hartmann, Niels W. Gade, August Winding and Carl Helsted. At the conservatory she met composer Axel Liebmann, whom she married in 1874. He died soon afterward and she turned to composing and teaching music to support herself and her child. Most of her compositions are written between 1869 and 1914, and she wrote reviews for Dannebrog.

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Thème passionné et variations by Nanna Liebmann

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