Lojze Lebič

Lebič was born August 23, 1934, in Prevalje, in the Carinthia region of Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia). He attended the University of Ljubljana for a bachelor's degree in archaeology and the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he studied with composition with Marijan Kozina and conducting with Danilo Švara.[1]

Lebič's early style was fairly traditional, but his work from after 1965 demonstrates the influence of the European avant-garde.[2] The opening of Slovenia to foreign travel in the 1950s and 60s allowed for greater musical and cultural exchange with the rest of Yugoslavia and Europe, encouraging the development of a Slovenian avant garde. Lebič's 1965 works Meditacije za dva for viola and cello and the cantata Požgana trava are examples of his use of new melodic and vocal techniques.[3]

• Per Archi (Za Golala) for string orchestra (2009)
• Invocation/ à Primož Ramovš (clarinet and piano), commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
• Meditacije za dva (Meditations for Two) for viola and cello (1965, revised 1972)
• Rubato per viola for viola solo (1989)
• Hvalnica svetu (In Praise of the World) for double choir, piano four-hands and percussion (1988)

In 1967, he was awarded the Prešeren Award for conducting.[4]

• Barbo, Matjaz. “Music as a Language of Globalisation? The Metalinguistic Context of Lebic’s Music.” Muzikološki zbornik 43, no. 1 (2007): 187–192.
• Lojze Lebič (1993) From generation to generation the spirit seeks the way: Slovene musical Creativity in the past and today, Nationalities Papers, 21:1, 145-155, DOI: 10.1080/00905999308408264
• Pompe, Gregor. “Sacred Rituality and Mysticism in the Service of the Awakening of National Identity. Baltic-Balkan Parallels in the Works of B. Kutavicius, L. Lebic and V. Tormis.” Muzikološki zbornik 50, no. 2 (2014): 111–125.