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... as a composer in Slovenia, Milan Stibilj (b.1929) is something of a special case. His training has been unorthodox in some respect; he studied psychology to an advanced level before concentrating on music. Although he wrote some of his earlier works in Ljubljana ... and established himself as a composer while still living in Slovenia, Stibilj has spend long periods abroad ...

... After holding a composition teaching post in 1973-74 at the Université de Montréal in Canada, he returned to Ljubljana: Here he has remained, standing somewhat apart from the mainstream of Slovenian music. Stibilj’s contact with psychology may have had some effect on his musical thinking, but it would no doubt have been of a general nature. There is little after his students works that is traditional in approach, yet there is a certain conservatism in his progress. Stibilj has generally avoided the rhythmically free coordination between parts ...

Montreal
Avignon München
Baden-Baden New York
Barcelona Nürnberg
Beograd Oklahoma
Bonn Otawa
Boston Paris
Bremen Praha
Bruxelles Reykjavik
Haag Roma
Hamburg Rotterdam
Heidelberg Saarbrucken
Hudson Salisbury
Karlsruhe Teheran
Kingsville Trieste
Ljubljana Utrecht
London Winston-Salem
Lübeck Warszawa
Maribor Wien
Michigan Zagreb
Montgomery Zürich

... There is no free textural working in the manner of some Polish composers, and his notation, with a few rare exceptions, is precise. There are no "half-composed" pieces ...

In almost all of Stibilj’s music, there is a concentration on process. Indeed it is no exaggeration to say that these processes, and a formal plans determined by them, have been Stibilj´s main concerns as a composer.

Niall O’Loughlin:
Process as musical Form in the Music of Milan Stibilj
Musicological Annual XXX, Ljubljana 1994
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Download the text of Milan Stibilj's contribution
Tin Can Culture
- published in review Kultura (picture on the left), Ljubljana, February 1997 -

Prevzemi besedilo prispevka Milana Stibilja
Kultura iz plocevinke
- objavljeno v reviji Kultura (na sliki levo), Ljubljana, februar 1997 -

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Milan Stibilj's compositions are accessible:

SCORES:
Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, Deutschland
Duke University, Music Library, Durham, NC, USA
Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia
The University of California, San Diego, Music Library, La Jolla, CA, USA
The University of Michigan, University Library, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

ARCHIVES:
Archives of the Republic of Slovenia

MANUSCRIPTS:
Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, Berlin, Deutschland

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