music.wikisort.org - Composer

Fran Gerbič (5 October 1840, Cerknica – 29 March 1917, Ljubljana) was a Slovenian composer and operatic tenor.

Gerbič was born in Cerknica and entered a normal school in 1856, where his instructors included Kamilo Mašek. He was assigned to a teaching position in Trnovo (now part of Ilirska Bistrica), where he also served as organist and composed his first works.[1]

During the 1940s Gerbič was one of the best-known composers of Yugoslavia abroad.[2]

Works

Operas

• Kres (Midsummer) 1896
• Nabor 1913

Songs

• Kam? (Where?)
• Pojdem na prejo (I'll Watch the Girls Spinning)
• V noči (In the Night)

References

---