Josip Mandić

Josip Mandić
Born(1883-04-04)4 April 1883
Trieste, Austrian Littoral, Austria-Hungary
Died4 October 1959(1959-10-04) (aged 76)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Other namesJosef Mandić
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Vienna Conservatory
Occupation(s)Lawyer, composer
RelativesAnte Mandić (brother)
Matko Mandić (uncle)

Josip Mandić or Josef Mandić (4 April 1883 – Prague, 4 October 1959) was a lawyer and a composer of Croat descent.

Biography

Mandić was born on 4 April 1883 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (today in Italy). He graduated law from the University of Vienna in 1906. He also attended the Vienna Conservatory, taught by Hermann Graedener and Robert Fuchs. Mandić returned to native Trieste, opened a law office there, and became involved in politics as a political ally of Dinko Trinajstić.[1] During the World War I, he became a member of the Yugoslav Committee, an ad-hoc group of politicians and activists advocating unification of the South Slavs and dissolution of Austria-Hungary.[2] After the war, Mandić stayed in Switzerland until 1923 when he moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he practised law and wrote music again.[1] He died on 4 October 1959 in Prague, at the age of 76.

Mandić composed approximately 20 pieces of music including:[1]

  • Croatian Mass (1897)
  • Slaven and song (cantata, 1902)
  • Petar Svačić (opera on libretto by Karlo Lukež [hr], 1903)
  • Orchestral suite (1905)
  • String Quartet (1927)
  • Night Journey (symphonic poem, 1928)
  • Four symphonies (1929, 1930, 1953, and 1954)
  • Wind Quintet (1930)
  • Three Ballads (1932)
  • Mirjana (opera, 1937)
  • Captain Niko (opera, 1944)
  • Variations on a Mozart Theme (1956)

Mandić was a nephew of politician and publicist Matko Mandić, and the younger brother of lawyer and politician Ante Mandić.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Duraković, Irma; Križman-Zorić, Đurđica (2005). "Mandić, Josip (Josef)". Istrian Encyclopedia, on-line edition (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  2. ^ Antoličič, Gregor (2020). "Avstro-ogrsko poveljstvo jugozahodne fronte in vprašanja politične drže na Hrvaškem med prvo svetovno vojno" [The Austro-Hungarian Command of the Southwestern Front and Questions concerning the Political Mood in Croatia during the First World War]. Pilar: časopis za društvene i humanističke studije (in Slovenian). 15 (29–30). Zagreb: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar: 75. ISSN 1846-3010.
  3. ^ Radonić Vranjković, Paulina (2021). "Mandić, Ante". Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 21 November 2024.