Ciril Cvetko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ciril Cvetko

Slovenian composer and conductor

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1920

Place of Birth: Vučja Vas, Slovenia

Date of Death: 18-Jan-1999

Profession: writer, composer, conductor, partisan, essayist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ciril Cvetko (8 January 1920 – 18 January 1999) was a Slovene composer and conductor, brother of the musicologist Dragotin Cvetko. Cvetko was born in Vucja Vas near Ljutomer in northeastern Slovenia in 1920.
He studied music at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and graduated in 1948.
He also completed graduate studies in Prague and Paris.
He worked at Triglav Film, the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Company, and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
He died in Ljubljana in 1999.In 1963 he won the Levstik Award for his book Opera in njeni mojstri (The Opera and Its Masters).