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May 19, 1931 Split, Split Dalmatia County, Croatia 92 years old
Croatian composer
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About Ruben Radica
- Ruben Radica (born 19 May 1931) is a Croatian composer.
- He was born in Split, and acquired a music grounding from his grandfather, the composer Josip Hatze.
- At the Zagreb Academy he graduated from the conducting class of Slavko Zlatic (1957) and from the composition class of Milko Kelemen (1958).
- In addition he attended classes in Siena, Paris and Darmstadt, given by Vito Frazzi, René Leibowitz, Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and Henri Pousseur.
- Radica taught at the Sarajevo Music Academy from 1959 to 1963, and then joined the faculty of the Zagreb Academy, lecturing in musical theory.As a composer, Radica's early style was essentially neo-classical; in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Nikša Gligo instances the compositions in Cetiri dramatska epigrama (Four Dramatic Epigrams, 1959), and the Concerto abbreviato (1960).
- After this, Radica came under the influence of Leibowitz, a strict follower of Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic theories.
- Gligo gives Lirske varijacije (Lyrical Variations, 1961) as an early example of this aspect of Radica's style.
- Radica has also experimented with Aleatory techniques.
- In his K a (Towards A), for two instrumental groups and synthesiser (1977) he aimed to reinstate melody.
- Gligo comments that some of Radica's later works, with a focus on the relation between speech patterns and "motivic musical ideas", have a style reminiscent of Janácek and early Stravinsky.Radica's works include several ballet/dance scores, large-scale orchestral pieces, chamber and choral music and songs, and an opera, Prazor (The Dawn, 1991).
