Petar Stojanović was a Serbia

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n violin

Violin

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ist and composer

Composer

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 of operetta

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s, ballet

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s and orchestral music. (His birthday is also variously given as 6 September and 25 August.)

He was born in Budapest

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 and studied the violin there with Jenő Hubay

Jeno Hubay

Eugen Huber , better known by his Hungarian name Jenő Hubay , was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.-Early life:Eugen Huber was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary...

. At the Vienna Conservatory, he studied violin with Jakob Grün and composition with Robert Fuchs

Robert Fuchs

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 and Richard Heuberger

Richard Heuberger

Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher....

. In 1925, he became professor of violin in Belgrade

Belgrade

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, where he lived until his death.

Selected works

Stage

• Tigar (The Tiger; Der Tiger), comic opera; libretto by R. von Perger, Budapest, 14 November 1905
• Devojka na Mansardi (The Girl from the Garrett; Liebchen am Dach); libretto by Viktor Léon
  Viktor Léon
  Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon was a well-known Jewish Hungarian-Austrian librettist...
  
  , 1917
• Vojvoda od Rajhštata (The Duke of Reichstadt; Die Herzog von Reichstadt); libretto by Viktor Léon
  Viktor Léon
  Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon was a well-known Jewish Hungarian-Austrian librettist...
  
   and Heinz Reichert, Vienna, 1921
• Mirjana, ballet (1942)
• Devet čiraka (Nine Candlesticks), ballet (1944)

Orchestral

• Smrt junaka (The Hero's Death), symphonic poem (1918)
• Sava, symphonic poem (1935)

Concertante

• Violin Concerto No. 1 (1904)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 (Prague, 1916)

Chamber music

• Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 9 (published 1909)
• Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 15 (published 1913)
• Piano Trio, Op. 16 (published 1913)
• Jugoslovenski rondo i Humoreska (Yugoslavian Rondo and Humoresque) for violin and piano (published 1955)
• Sonata in C major for viola and piano, Op. 97