Blagoje Bersa - Selected Piano Works

Goran Filipec - Piano 00:00 Ballade 07:13 Theme and Variations 13:02 Nocturne 17:47 Fantasie Breve 20:19 Minuett 24:39 Ora triste 29:50 Melancolie Blagoje Bersa or Benito Bersa (1873-1934) was a Croatian Composer. From 1893 to 1896, Blagoje was a student at the Music School of the National Music Institute in Zagreb, where his teachers were Ivan Zajc (piano and composition), Anton Stöckl (music theory) and Hinko Geiger (cello). At the end of his apprenticeship in Zagreb, he began work on the opera Jelka based on the libretto by his brother Josip, which he completed for five years, but to this day it has not been performed entirely on stage. From 1896 to 1899, Blagoje Bersa was a student at the Vienna Conservatory where he studied piano with Julius Epstein and composition with Robert Fuchs, who was also a professor at Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf, Jean Sibelius and Alexander Zemlinski. While still a Viennese student, he composed the sympho