Emil Adamič was a Slovenian composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

.

Adamič was born in Dobrova

Dobrova, Dobrova - Polhov Gradec

Dobrova is a settlement northwest of Ljubljana in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It is the administrative centre of the Municipality of Dobrova-Polhov Gradec....

 (at Ulica Vladimirja Dolničarja no. 6) and studied at conservatories in Trieste and Ljubljana. He composed pieces for orchestra (Tatarische Suite, Aquarelle aus Ljubljana) and choir (Die Teufelsbraut, Kaiser Samuels Tod). He also wrote art songs, such as Bauernwinterlied, which used elements of Slovenian folk music. His influences included Romanticism

Romanticism

Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

, Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...

, and Expressionism

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...

. He died in Ljubljana.

External links