Lucijan M. Škerjanc - 12 Preludes for Piano

Škerjanc Lucijan Marija (1900 - 1973) (Jure Rozman - Piano)
0:00 1. Con sentimento
1:23 2. Pensieroso
2:24 3. Tempestoso
2:54 4. Transcendente
4:25 5. Tempo di valse
5:22 6. Energico
5:50 7. Contemplativo
7:33 8. Volante
8:22 9. Con abbandono
9:45 10. Ruvido
10:28 11. Dolcissimo
11:40 12. Lugubre
Lucijan Škerjanc (1900-1973) was a Slovenian Composer.
Škerjanc is one of the most important older composers of contemporary Slovene music and is one of the key Slovene musical personalities of the 20th century. He graduated in Ljubljana and studied music in Prague, Vienna (Joseph Marx), Paris (Schola cantorum) and Basel (Felix Weingartner).

He spent many years teaching composition at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, teaching composers such as Nada Ludvig-Pečar, Zvonimir Ciglič and Janez Matičič whilst serving as a chancellor for a period and was a pianist, conductor, music writer, and director of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra based in the country's capital.
His style reflected late romanticism with qualities of expressionism and impressionism in his pieces, often with a hyperbolic artistic temperament, juxtaposing the dark against melodic phrases in his music.
Škerjanc was liberal in his attitude to music and multifaceted in his works. Whilst musically diverse, his opus centred on composition, varying from piano miniatures and solos for beginners, and solo and chamber works to full blown concertos and symphonies. Apart from sonatas, he notably composed a cycle of seven nocturnes, which many consider his greatest piano oriented work, and seven orchestral pieces Gazele (Ghazels). He not only composed for the piano but also the violin, the clarinet and the bassoon in 1952. During his life he also wrote for international composers and composed the film scores for a number of films under Yugoslavia.

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