Milan Stibilj

Milan Stibilj was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, in 1929. Originally a student of psychology, he began to study composition in 1954 with Karol Pahor at the Music Academy of Ljubljana, continuing later with Milko Kelemen in Zagreb, and in the Electronic Studio of the University of Utrecht. During 1967-68 he worked in Berlin under the auspices of the Berliner Künstlerprogramms, and he now lives as freelance composer in Berlin and Ljubljana.

Besides a number of Yugoslavian prizes, he has been awarded the Edison Prize and the Grand Prix du Disque for hes recorded work Epervier de ta faiblesse, domine for speaker and percussion.

Stibilj has from the outset employed serial technique, to produce a highly individual sound world. In his more recent pieces he has shown particular interest in expanding and contracting rhythmic structures. Notwithstanding the impressin of relative freedom which it makes for the listener, Stibilj’s music uses a system of precise notation in which equilibrium between controlled and free elements is maintained.

Janez Höfler, Introductory note to the concert programme
ISCM FESTIVAL, LONDON 1971

Records

... ZOOM is daring, artistically original, thoughfully conceived recording, which reveals Milan Stibilj as an independent and determined searcher and researcher of sounds, a creator and thinker.
M.Z. : ZOOM by Milan Stibilj - Recent recordings
(DELO, Ljubljana 1983)

JUGOTON, LPJ-V-680 (Pro musica viva)
SKLADJA for piano and orchestra

PHILIPS, 836.991 DSY (prospective 21° siècle) -
EPERVIER DE TA FAIBLESSE, DOMINE pour recitant et ensemble de percussion

ZKP Ljubljana, KD 1379
LA ROSETTE pour orchestre

PHILIPS, 6740 001 (Electronic Panorama)
THE RAINBOW for tape

PHILIPS, SFL-8538 (Japan Edition)
EPERVIER DE TA FAIBLESSE, DOMINE pour recitant et ensemble de percussion

ZPK Ljubljana, LD 0387 - KD 0387 (ZOOM)
XYSTUS, SEANCE, ZOOM, ASSIMILATION, THE RAINBOW

HELIDON, CD 6 771 430
SHOTA pour piano

PHILIPS, 6585 007 (Universo Serie - Electronic 2000)
THE RAINBOW for tape

ZKP Ljubljana, DD 0150
THE RAINBOW, XYSTUS, INDIAN SUMMER, SKLADJA, COMPOSITIONS, SEANCE

Milan Stibilj's compositions are accessible:

SCORES:

Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, Deutschland
Duke University, Music Library, Durham, NC, USA
Harvard Univesity, 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

MANUSCRIPTS:

Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, Berlin, Deutschland

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