Vlastimir Peričić

Vlastimir Peričić (7 December 1927 in Vršac – 1 March 2000 in Belgrade) was a Serbian composer and one of the most important theoreticians of Serbian music, well-known musicologist and the author of extremely valuable university textbooks, as well as a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Vlastimir Peričić was the son of Juraj and Jelica Peričić, maiden name Nikolajević .

Attended elementary school in Zemun from 1934 to 1938, grammar school in Zemun from 1938 to 1941 and in Belgrade from 1941 to 1946. Enrolled high school of music at the Belgrade Academy in 1941, the Music Academy in 1945, graduated from the Department of Composition at the Music Academy of Belgrade (the class of professor Stanojlo Rajičić) in 1951.

In the period from 1945 to 1947 worked as an intern in the Natural History Museum in Belgrade, from 1948 to 1951 as a part-time lecturer of solfeggio and basic music theory at the Music School Josif Marinković in Belgrade, from 1951 to 1955 as a professor of theoretical subjects in the Secondary School of Music at the Academy of Music (now the School of Music Slavenski).

Vlastimir Peričić spent the school year 1955—1956 training at the Academy of Music and Drama Art (Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst) in Vienna (class for composition of professor Alfred Uhl). During the summer 1956 he attended courses for contemporary music in Darmstadt (Germany).

In 1955 he was elected an assistant at the Department of Composition of the Academy of Music in Belgrade (now the University of Arts in Belgrade Faculty of Music)), 1961 Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Theory, 1965 Associate Professor, 1988 full professor. From 1967 to 1971 he also taught at the Department of I stage education in Niš. He taught various theoretical subjects (harmony, harmonic analysis, counterpoint, musical forms, analysis of musical works, tone movement, knowledge of instruments, etc.), and since 1971 the history of Yugoslav music at the Department of Musicology.

He was a mentor to 51 candidates from the theoretical courses and 27 from the history of Yugoslav music for their final exam, as well as to 6 postgraduates.

He retired as a professor of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 1993.

He died in Belgrade on 1 March 2000.

For 80 anniversary of composer's birth, 7 December 2007, in Music and Information Centre SOKOJ in Belgrade, the first part of the Legacy Vlastimir Peričić was opened.

Academy of Music, University of East Sarajevo, opened the second part of the Legacy Vlastimir Peričić.

Vlastimir Peričić won several awards and recognitions.
Here are just some of them:

• Award of People's Youth of Yugoslavia for the handful II (1948) and the handful III (1950)
• Award at the International competition Giovanni Battista Viotti, Vercelli (Italy), for String quartet, 1950
• Award of the Association of Serbian Composers for Simfonijeta, 1959

• Josip Andreis, Dragotin Cvetko, Stana Djuric-Klein: The historical development of music culture in Yugoslavia, Zagreb, School Book, 1962, 708 pages
• Vlastimir Peričić, with the cooperation of Dušan Kostić and Dusan Skovran: Music makers in Serbia (the text about V. Peričić written by Dušan Skovran), Belgrade, Prosveta, 1969, 373–582 pages
• Stana Đurić-Klajn: Introduction to the History of Yugoslav Music, Beograd, Umetnička akademija u Beogradu, Muzička akademija, 1963
• Nenad Turkalj: Small History of Music, Naprijed, Zagreb, 1963, 149.
• Yugoslav contemporaries, Library Lexicon, Who is Who in Yugoslavia 1970, Belgrade, Chronometer, 1970
• Dejan Despić: Vlastimir Peričić, Pro Musica 140, 1989, 5–6
• Dejan Despić: Interview with Vlastimir Peričić, Novi zvuk 2, 1993, 5–10.
• Larousse de la musique, Pariz, 1957, vol. II, 179 (F. Zagiba)
• Music Encyclopedia JLZ, Zagreb, 1963, vol. II, 389 (D. Skovran)
• Enciklopedija Jugoslavije, Zagreb, 1965, vol. VI, 466 (D. Skovran)
• Album kompozitora, Association of Music and Ballet pedagogues of Serbia, Beograd, 1970
• Dušan Plavša, Music Art, Encyclopedic Lexicon – Mozaik znanja, Interpres-Beograd, 1972.
• Lexicon of Yugoslav music, Zagreb, 1984, sv. II, 160 (J. Zec)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London, 1980, vol. XIV, 405 (h. – 0 'Loughlin)
• Irena Grickat: Vlastimir Peričić, Multilingual dictionary of musical terms, Južnoslovenski Filolog XLII, 1986, 223–226
• Dejan Despić: Vlastimir Peričić, Instrumental and vocal and instrumental counterpoint, Zbornik Matice srpske za scenske umetnosti i muziku, 2, Novi Sad 1987, 240–242
• Momir Đoković, Lexicon, Who is Who in Serbia 1991, Beograd, Bibliofon, 1991.
• Roksanda Pejović: Music composition and performance from 18 century to the present
• Melita Milin: Vlastimir Peričić

His idiom in music writing is based on neo-romanticism, with some tendencies towards freer and bolder vertical structures. In his works, which are characterized by clarity and fine technical touch, there prevails some inclination towards sonata-cyclic forms.

• Music encyclopedia JLZ, Zagreb, vol. I 1958, vol. II 1963.
• Lexicon of Yugoslav Music, JLZ, Zagreb, I-II, 1984.

Texts for the programs of Radio Belgrade, Radio Skopje, for covers of the records in the BTB PGP, the program comments for the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Radio Belgrade, Musical Youth. Biographical articles on composers-academics on the occasion of the SANU exhibition, 1981, texts for the programs of concerts in the SANU Gallery, 1982/1983, etc..