COMPOSERS from Slovenia

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovene Composers of all time. This list of famous Slovene Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)

With an HPI of 64.40, Hugo Wolf is the most famous Slovene Composer.  His biography has been translated into 42 different languages on wikipedia.

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique. Though he had several bursts of extraordinary productivity, particularly in 1888 and 1889, depression frequently interrupted his creative periods, and his last composition was written in 1898, before he suffered a mental collapse caused by syphilis.

2. Jacobus Gallus (1550 - 1591)

With an HPI of 59.08, Jacobus Gallus is the 2nd most famous Slovene Composer.  His biography has been translated into 25 different languages.

Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl; between 15 April and 31 July 1550 – 18 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life.

3. Slavko Avsenik (1929 - 2015)

With an HPI of 51.48, Slavko Avsenik is the 3rd most famous Slovene Composer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Slavko Avsenik (November 26, 1929 – July 2, 2015) was a Slovene composer and musician. Beginning in 1953 with the formation of the Avsenik Brothers Ensemble, Avsenik produced more than 1,000 songs and garnered success both in Slovenia and in other parts of Europe and America, and is viewed as a Slovenian cultural icon.