Davorin Jenko between Slovenian and Serbian Music. Case Study on Slavonic Music Ideas Migations at the turn of the 20th century

Some might estimate that my decision to write a paper on the renowned composer and conductor Davorin Jenko (1835–1914), from the point of view of musical migrations as the main topic of the Symposium, held in Ljubljana, may be hasty, or, at best – a brave decision. It is well known that Ljubljana and Slovenia are considered a kind of epicentre for studying Jenko’s life and creative work: after the fundamental research and monographs by the doyen of Slovenian musicology Dragotin Cvetko, valuable contributions in recent times have been achieved in works by colleagues Nataša Cigoj-Krstulović, Gregor Jenuš and Franc Križnar, Henrik Neubauer, Jernej Weiss – to mention just a few of the most notable results