Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac was born on January 9, 1856 in Negotin, Serbia. He had been working as a composer, a conductor and a pedagogue; a very important person in the cultural life of Serbia and one of the Serbian national symbol...
The importance and value of Mokranjac’s work has deep roots in his specific relation towards folk heritage as an essence out of which he made a work of art. With the intuition of a refined artist and with his subtle taste, he had a balance to find a proper measure how to intervene national motives...
Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac is the most prominent and celebrated composer in the Serbian classical music, who has laid a permanent foundations to it. He was the first one to have introduced its value and beauty of Serbian folk songs, as well, to the world on tour...