Tomislav zografski biography examples

 

Tomislav Zografski (1934 - 2000)

The composer Tomislav Zografski is one of the knights of the Macedonian music culture, and he is a representative of the generation of Macedonian music authors who during the 60’s brought the domestic music values closer to the world mainstream.

He is the first composer to introduce the stylistic characteristics of neoclassicism in the Macedonian music. In the same time, in his works he cherished the feeling of the great ethical values of the Macedonian folk antiquities, especially from urban provenance.

Zografski kept this feeling during his entire life.

 

What actually lies here is the most hidden part of his being, his life’s creed, his life’s poetics, with strong symbolic meaning, as a kind of everlasting message to continue the path of cherishing humanness in life as well as in art.

Perhaps the best example is one of his most important works, the cycle “Zapisi” ("Scripts") for a bass voice