Lorenc Antoni was a Kosovo Albanian composer

Composer

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, conductor

Conducting

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, and ethnomusicologist.

Early years

Antoni was raised as a Catholic in the Albanian

Albanians

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 Catholic community of Skopje

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, and is the cousin of Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa

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).. Since a child, he was active in various musical ensembles of the Albanians. He studied music privately in Skopje

Skopje

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 and Belgrade

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. After completing his education at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, he returned to Uroševac

Uroševac

Ferizaj or Uroševac is a city and municipality in southern Kosovo, located some south of the capital Pristina.Uroševac is the third most populous city in Kosovo, after Pristina and Prizren.It is the administrative centre of the homonymous district...

.

Career

In 1941 Antoni beagn teaching music in Uroševac

Uroševac

Ferizaj or Uroševac is a city and municipality in southern Kosovo, located some south of the capital Pristina.Uroševac is the third most populous city in Kosovo, after Pristina and Prizren.It is the administrative centre of the homonymous district...

, Prizren

Prizren

Prizren is a historical city located in southern Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.The city has a population of around 131,247 , mostly Albanians...

, and Priština

Pristina

Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....

. In 1948 Antoni established in Prizren

Prizren

Prizren is a historical city located in southern Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.The city has a population of around 131,247 , mostly Albanians...

 one of the Josip Slavenski music schools of former Yugoslavia

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 for beginners and intermediate music performers. He led and conducted the choir of the school. He also conducted the artists of the cultural society "Agimi" and the Symphony Orchestra of the city of Prizren

Prizren

Prizren is a historical city located in southern Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.The city has a population of around 131,247 , mostly Albanians...

.

In the study of folklore, Antoni wrote a seven-volume work on Albanian folk music from Kosovo

Kosovo

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, Macedonia

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, the Montenegro

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 and South Morava. He also composed around 200 musical compositions, mainly vocal pieces.

Recognition

There is currently a music school named after Antoni in Prizren.. The School of music “Lorenc Antoni” currently has 6 classes, 52 students, and 21 teachers.

Literary works

• "Songs popular Albanian Kosovo and Metohija", Prishtina 1953
• "Albanian folklore music", with seven volumes, 1956-1977 Pristina
• "Saga and Legend", Prishtina 1973
• "Old wives' tales." I, Pristina 1979
• "Research folklore", Pristina, 198
• "Old wives' tales", II, Pristina 1982
• "Songs Kreshnik" I, II, III
• "Lament, and elegji gjamë
• "Songs nuptial," I, II, etc..

Scientific articles

• "Albanian folklore music," to "New Life", 1949, no. 1
• "Format the pace of Albanian folk songs", to "New Life", 1949 (no. 1), 1950 (no. 5 and 6) 1951 (no. 1)
• "Foundations of tonal Albanian folk songs", the "Progress", 1952, no. 11-12
• "Songs from popular Opoja" to "Progress", 1959, no. 2-3
• "The Albanian kënduemit popular" to "Zvuk", 1960, no. 41-42
• "Two ways kënduemit the Albanians of Montenegro", in "Progress", 1961
• "Forms of music popular Albanian songs", to "Zvuk, 1963
• "Polifoni shape of the vocal folk music gegëve", "investigation Albanologjike, II/1972
• "Elements polyphonic music in the popular Opojës" Albanologjike investigation ", etc. II/1974.