Boris Papandopulo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Boris Papandopulo

Croatian composer

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1906

Place of Birth: Bad Honnef, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1991

Profession: composer, conductor

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Boris Papandopulo

  • Boris Papandopulo (Honnef am Rhein, today's Bad Honnef, February 25, 1906 – Zagreb, October 16, 1991) was a Croatian composer and conductor of Russian Jewish descent.
  • He was the son of Greek nobleman Konstantin Papandopulo and Croatian opera singer Maja Strozzi-Pecic and one of the most distinctive Croatian musicians of the 20th century.
  • Papandopulo also worked as music writer, journalist, reviewer, pianist and piano accompanist; however, he achieved the peaks of his career in music as a composer.
  • His composing oeuvre is imposing (counting cca 460 works): with great success he created instrumental (orchestral, concertante, chamber and solo), vocal and instrumental (for solo voice and choir), stage music and film music.
  • In all these kinds and genres he left a string of anthology-piece compositions of great artistic value.

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