IN MEMORIAM : Dr. ŠKULJ Edo (1941 – 2024)

ASTRUM Music Publications is sad to announce the death of musicologist, music editor and Roman Catholic priest | |
Dr. ŠKULJ Edo (1941 – 2024) Dr. ŠKULJ Edo, Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, musicologist and music editor (May 23, 1941, Podsmreka (near Velike Lašče, Slovenia) - August 28, 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Dr. Škulj was born on May 23, 1941 in Podsmreka, in the parish of Velika Lašče, Slovenia, and received priest ordination on December 18, 1965 in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina. He served as a priest among emigrants in Frankfurt and in the parishes of Ljubljana - St. Nikolaj, Škocjan near Turjak and Turjak, Slovenia. For several years he was secretary of the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana, and devoted much of his energy to research and teaching church music, for which he received the Gallus plaque and the Mantuani prize. Otherwise, he was the author and editor of more than fifty books. The last extensive monograph was published just before his death by the Celjska Mohorjeva družba on the 100th anniversary of the death of the composer Franc Gerbič. Easter greeting with a humorous note from dr. Edo Škulj to the editor of the ASTRUM Music Publications: Dr. Škulj started analyzing JS Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I / The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–869 "for fun". The example shows the end of the twenty-first Prelude and Fugue, I/21, BWV 866, B-major. (Source: archive of the ASTRUM Music Publications) More about Dr. Edo Škulj in the Slovenian version of this document - and help yourself with the translation with e.g. Google translate. |
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