Primož Ramovš was a Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

n composer. He was born and died in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

.

Ramovš studied at the Ljubljana Academy of Music from 1935-1941 under Slavko Osterc

Slavko Osterc

Slavko Osterc , was a Slovenian composer.Osterc was born in Veržej. He studied under Emerik Beran, who was a pupil of Leoš Janáček, in his youth before attending the Prague Conservatory from 1925 to 1927. While there he studied under Karel Boleslav Jirák, Vítězslav Novák, and Alois Hába...

; following this he studied in Siena

Siena

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 under Vito Frazzi in 1941 and in Rome

Rome

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 with Goffredo Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.-Life:...

 and Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Life and career :Casella was born in Turin; his family included many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin...

 from 1941-1943. In 1945 he began working at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, where he became director in 1952. He also taught at the Ljubljana Conservatory from 1948-1964. Ramovš's early works are neoclassical

Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint...

 in style, but later works employ serialism

Serialism

In music, serialism is a method or technique of composition that uses a series of values to manipulate different musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, though his contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as one example of...

and other modernist techniques.

Works

• 6 symphonies (1940, 1943, 1948, Simfonija 68 1968, Simfonija med klavirjem in orkestrom [Symphony between piano and orchestra] 1970, Simfonija Pietà 1995) and a sinfonietta (1951)
• Kolovrat, string orchestra (1986)
• Contrasts, flute and orchestra (1966)
• Syntheses, horn and ensemble (1971)
• Concerto profano, organ and orchestra (1984)
• Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra (1961)
• Trumpet concerto (1985)
• Transformacije (Transformations) for 2 violas and 10 string instruments (1963)
• Tryptychon, string quartet (1969)
• 3 Nocturnes, double bass (1972)
• Improvisations, harp (1973)
• Aforizmi (Aphorisms) for viola and piano (1964)
• Nokturno for viola and piano (1959)
• Skice (Sketches) for viola and piano (1958)

• Much film music