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Blato na Korčuli, 18/06/1934
Address: Prilaz Đure Deželića 14, 10000 Zagreb
Phone: +385 (0)1 4848921

Education


  • graduated in composition in the class of Stjepan Šulek from the Zagreb Academy of Music in 1960
  • Membership in Artistic and Scholarly Organizations or Institutions


  • Croatian Composers' Society
  • Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (associate Member from 1988, regular member from 1992, from 2004, vice-president)
  • Awards and Merits


  • 1965 - The City of Zagreb Award
  • 1978 - award given by the Council of Central Florida for Arts and Sciences
  • 1980 - Milka Trnina Award
  • 1989 - Vjesnik's Josip Štolcer Slavenski Prize
  • 1992 - Vladimir Nazor Award
  • 1993 - Orlando Award
  • 1994 -
  • 1996 - the Order of Danica hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić given by the president of the Republic of Croatia
  • 1997 - Porin Award
  • 1999 - Ivan Lukačić Award
  • 2002 - Porin Award
  • 2003 -
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  • About the Author

    As a composer, Dešpalj has created valuable works which display great inventiveness and the superb knowledge of forms and orchestration. His works have been performed and released in the country and abroad. 'My compositions can be placed somewhere between neoclassicism and neo-Romanticism. That is a point between the Paris Group of Six, Shostakovich and Prokofiev with an occasional touch of Bartók and Stravinsky's music, but not beyond'. (Pavle Dešpalj) His repertoire contains a wide range of various styles and he particularly nurtures the Croatian music as the most consistent and best-informed promoter of Stjepan Šulek's opus. He records intensively for radio, television and various record companies in Croatia and abroad.