Naslov
First Croatian Tambura and Other Instruments Factory “Terezija Kovačić”

Autori
Jeić, Jadran

Izvornik
Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis V (New Series) (2191-5261) 5 (2017), 1; 145-160

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Povijest tambure - obrt - 19.st. - tradicijska glazbala - industrija
(History of tambura - Craft - 19. Century - traditional intruments - industry)

Sažetak
The paper deals with the history of the tambura production in Croatia. In the mid-19th century many tambura makers from Sisak and its surrounding area began to improve their craft parallel with the introduction of the tambura as a national musical instrument. One of the tambura makers was Mato Kovačić from Lukavac (Sisak). During the 1870s he moved to Zagreb where he opened a small workshop – at first in Gornji grad (the old part of Zagreb). At that time, he was also working as a city guard. But later, due to numerous orders, he specialised only in tambura manufacturing. In those days everybody wanted to have a tambura as a symbol of a growing national Illyrian Movement (Ilirski narodni preporod). Unfortunately, Mato Kovačić died as a relatively young man, but his wife Terezija Kovačić (born Šimunić near Krapina in Hrvatsko zagorje) overtook the ownership and improved business during the course of time. At the peak of tambura production, the small workshop transformed into a respectable factory with many employees. The yearly production was 3000-4000 pieces of tambura. Apart from the factory, Terezija Kovačić also had a shop in Ilica Street (the main street in Zagreb), where she was selling her tamburas and other musical instruments (zithers, guitars, mandolins etc.) along with musicians' accessories (tricolour straps for tamburas (narodni gajtani), picks, strings, instrument cases). She had also opened a shop in Sarajevo (around 1895). Soon after her husband's death, Terezija married a famous Zagreb sculptor and the owner of an old mill on Medveščak creek, Mirko Koenig. In 1914 Terezija Kovačić died, but her husband continued working with musical instruments until the 1930s, when he gave the factory to a family friend, a young opera singer Milivoj Kučić. After the world crisis in the 1930s, Terezija Kovačić's factory finally stopped working. It was definitively the most important musical instruments' producer of the 19th century Croatia.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Etnologija i antropologija

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