Aleksandar Obradović

Aleksandar Obradović () (22 August 1927 in Bled, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – 1 April 2001 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) was a Serbian 20th-century composer and professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He was a Rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade (1979–1983).

He was a composer, music writer, and pedagogue, active primarily in the Republic of Serbia. He composed significant chamber and concertante works, but his most considerable contribution to Serbian music belongs to the genre of symphonic music. His oeuvre consists of over two hundred works. Apart from music, Obradović expressed his creativity through visual arts and writing. His paintings, conceived predominantly in watercolor technique were displayed at one individual and several group exhibitions, the former entitled ''Color, Sound, Word'' (Kolarac University, Belgrade, November 27, 1997). The book of his selected poetry ''Somewhere inside me'' was published the same year (1997).

Obradović was born in 1927 in Bled, Slovenia. Following the completion of composition studies at the Music Academy in Belgrade with Professor Mihovil Logar, he continued his education with L. Berkeley in London and with V. Ussachevsky in the United States, where he turned to the examination of electronic music. He began teaching at the music school "Stanković" during the academic year 1953-54, followed by a position at the Belgrade Music Academy where he taught theory disciplines, orchestration, and composition. Obradović was President of the Composers Association of Yugoslavia from 1962 to 1966, Rector of the Belgrade University of Arts from 1979 to 1983, and Chair of the Department of Composition and Orchestration at the School of Music in Belgrade. As a music writer and critic he published articles in ''Politika'', ''Borba'', and ''Literary magazine'' (''Književne novine''), and periodicals ''Pro musica'' and ''The Sound'' (''Zvuk''). Obradović authored the textbook ''An Introduction to orchestration'' (''Uvod u orkestraciju'') (University of Arts, Belgrade, 1978), published in two editions and translated into the Italian language. He is also a recipient of the October Award for his composition ''The Symphonic epitaph'' (1959) and the July 7th Work Life Legacy Award (Sedmojulska nagrada) in 1980.Everyone says he was a good man. Provided by Wikipedia