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In memoriam: Jerko Bezić (10. 06. 1929 – 9. 01. 2010)

The Academician, Professor Jerko Bezić, the Nestor of Croatian ethnomusicology and long-term senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research passed away in Zagreb in his 81st year on January 9, 2010. Professor Bezić was born in Kranj in Slovenia on June 10, 1929. He was educated in Zagreb, Zadar and Ljubljana, where he studied Law, the piano, ethnology and musicology. When he had completed his education, he worked as an assistant at the Institute of the Yugoslav (today Croatian) Academy of Arts and Science in Zadar, doing field research and recording folklore music and Glagolitic singing in the broad Zadar area. One of the outcomes of that research was his dissertation Razvoj i oblici glagoljaškog pjevanja u sjevernoj Dalmaciji (Development and Forms of Glagolitic Singing in Northern Dalmatia ; published in 1973). In 1964, he moved permanently to Zagreb and took the position of ethnomusicologist at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, where he was on the staff until his retirement in 1999. Parallely with his scholarly work he was also dedicated to teaching. From 1966 to 1993, he lectured in Ethnomusicology at the Department of Musicology of the Academy of Music in Zagreb, and the Department of Ethnology at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy. In 1980 he was elected as an Associate Member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Science, in 1991 he was promoted to Full Member, and he was the Secretary of the Academy’s Department for Music Art and Musicology from 1997 to 2003. In his research work, Academician Bezić collected extensive and valuable folklore music material, by which he contributed to the safeguarding of Croatian cultural heritage, while he went into a whole series of ethnomusicological themes in his numerous scholarly papers. His research gave rise to a capital monograph on the folklore music of the Sinj area, the islands of Hvar, Brač, Zlarin and Šolta, the Donja Stubica vicinity, the Požega Valley and on the music of the Burgenland Croatians. He edited numerous proceedings and collections of material from the legacy of other researchers. He was also a member of the editorial boards of leading scholarly journals. With his multifarious activities, Academician Bezić left an indelible mark on Croatian ethnomusicology and contributed to the creation of its standing as a scholarly discipline. He introduced significant innovations in methodology, revived research into neglected themes, trained new professionals and contributed to the preservation and popularisation of Croatia’s folklore music heritage.

Jerko Bezić; ethnomusicology; Croatia

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