Petar Bergamo graduated from the Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 Music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 Academy (1960), where he
studied composition

Musical composition

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 with Stanojlo Rajičić and conducting with Živojin Zdravković

Živojin Zdravkovic

Živojin Zdravković , a Serbian conductor, served as chief conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and professor of conducting at the Music Academy in Belgrade. He was also a member and president of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia.-References:*Ikonomova, V...

. He also completed his post-graduate studies of composition at the same Academy (1964) and was an assistant and assistant professor of
composition and instrumentation

Instrumentation (music)

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 from 1965 to 1972.
From 1973 to 1976 he was a music editor

Editing

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 at Universal Edition in Vienna

Vienna

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.

Bergamo
wrote two symphonies, works for chorus

Choir

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, children’s song

Song

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s, film

Film

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 score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

s, and
incidental music for radio

Radio

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. His early music is in a late-Romantic

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 style

Music genre

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, while his
later works show increasing tendencies toward atonality

Atonality

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 and freedom from
traditional forms

Musical form

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.
Bergamo’s works for wind

Wind

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s include: Concerto Abbreviato

Concerto Abbreviato

Concerto Abbreviato is a musical composition for solo clarinet written by Petar Bergamo, for Milenko Stefanović, who gave its first performance on March 16, 1966, on his tour in UK, and recorded it, the same year, for PGP-RTB.-Analysis:...

 for clarinet

Clarinet

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 solo, I colori d’argento for flute,
harpsichord and chamber ensemble (1967), Concerto

Concerto

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 per una voce for bassoon

Bassoon

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(1975), Saxophone

Saxophone

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 Concerto (1991–1993), and Domande senza ripostà for
saxophone and piano

Piano

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(1996).