Ortakov, Dragoslav (Gevgelija, 22. ⅳ 1928 – Skopje, 9. ⅹⅰⅰ 2007) – Musicologist and composer. Fulse of contemporary Macedonian musicology. Education acquired in several European centers (Zagreb, in music, Josip Andreis, Belgrade, composition at Mark Tecevic; Paris, improvement in the classes of Pierre Viser and Jacques Shaje). The initiator is the first head of the Musicology Department at FMU in Skopje. Before it was the director of the opera and the ballet, and then the professor of FMU. In musicology, Nemangoslav Ortakov is a research interest in the distant layers of the Macedonian musical past, but also to contemporary creative currents. Together with Sotir Golobovski, the first to lay the foundations of the Music Wantatology in Macedonia. He wrote a larger number of articles, deciphered a number of medieval music manuscripts and has published more books. The creative life of O. It passes through several stages. First, it is also shown as a composer and critic, when it creates mainly chamber and choral compositions. Then (the second half of the seventies and eighties) the focus puts on music research, and in the last decade of ⅹⅹ c. reverts its compositor activity. At this time, several more noticeable works occur, including the vocal cycle “masons”. He remained enrolled in the Macedonian music history and as the author of the first electronic composition “SLEIP 76”. Part: for music (1962); Music in Macedonia (1982); Ars New Macendonics (1986); Robings for the Byzantine Slavic music in Macedonia (2001); The eternal Orpheus (2004, co-author). M. Cole.
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Кириличен напис ОРТАКОВ, Драгослав