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Serbian author and composer

Darinka Simic-Mitrovic (born February 19, 1937) is a Serbian author, composer and music educator.

Biography

Simic-Mitrovic was born in Belgrade. She earned a degree from the Music Academy in Belgrade in 1962, where her teachers included Emil Hajek and Predrag Milosevic. After graduating, Simic-Mitrovic taught piano at the Music School Josip Slavenski, where she received the 1964 April 4 Award of the Federation of Students. In 1967, she began working as a music editor at Radio Belgrade. She married Mirosav Mitrovic in 1975 and they had two daughters.

Simic-Mitrovic is a member of the Composers’ Association of Serbia. In addition to composing music, she wrote a book about Serbian theatre, and contributed to a history of the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Radio-Television Belgrade. Her works have been published by Radio Beograd and Zvonik. They include:

Books

  • A Sentimental Story of Serbian Theatre
  • Da Capo all’Infinito: Half a Century Since the Founding of the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Radio-Television Belgrade (with Slobodan Atanackovic and Sveta Lukic)

Chamber

  • Sonata (violin and piano)
  • Igre (dances; bassoon and piano)

Vocal

  • Gradinar (song cycles; mezzo-soprano and piano; text by Rabindranath Tagore)
  • Vrati Mi Moje Krpice (song cycle; two sopranos, violin, flute, harp and cello; text by Vasko Popa)

References

  1. Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
  2. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. ^ Cummings, David (2000). International who's who in music and musicians' directory : (in the classical and light classical fields). International Biographical Centre. p. 595. ISBN 0-948875-53-4. OCLC 44483931.
  4. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. "S | Composers' Association of Serbia". composers.rs. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  6. ^ Simic-Mitrovic, Darinka. "Worldcat.org". Retrieved 2022-04-05.
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