Ciril Cvetko
Ciril Cvetko (8 January 1920 – 18 January 1999) was a Slovene composer and conductor, brother of the musicologist Dragotin Cvetko.
Ciril Cvetko
Panonski zbornik, Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1966. · Public domain
- Name
- Ciril Cvetko
- Born
- 8 January 1920
- Birthplace
- Vučja Vas, Slovenia
- Died
- 18 January 1999
- Place of death
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Known for
- composer, conductor
- Nationality
- Slovenia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- writer · conductor · composer · essayist · music educator · partisan
- Education
- University of Ljubljana
- Honours
- Župančič Award
- Languages
- Slovene
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Ciril Cvetko (8 January 1920 – 18 January 1999) was a Slovene composer and conductor, brother of the musicologist Dragotin Cvetko.
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• Name — Ciril Cvetko • Born — 8 January 1920 • Birthplace — Vučja Vas, Slovenia • Died — 18 January 1999 • Place of death — Ljubljana, Slovenia • Known for — composer, conductor
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Cvetko was born in Vučja Vas near Ljutomer in northeastern Slovenia in 1920. He studied music at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and graduated in 1948. He also completed graduate studies in Prague and Paris. He worked at Triglav Film, the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Company, and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. He died in Ljubljana in 1999. In 1963 he won the Levstik Award for his book Opera in njeni mojstri (The Opera and Its Masters).
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