Stevan Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Стојановић, 9 January 1856 – 28 September 1914), known as Stevan Mokranjac (Мокрањац, ) was a Serbian composer and music educator. Born in Negotin in 1856, Mokranjac studied music in Belgrade, Munich, Rome and Leipzig while in his twenties. Later, he became the conductor of the Belgrade Choir Society and founder of the Serbian School of Music and the first Serbian string quartet, in which he played the cello. He left Belgrade at the beginning of World War I and moved to Skopje, where he died on 28 September 1914.
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9 January 1856 Negotin, Principality of Serbia
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Died |
28 September 1914 (aged 58) Skoplje, Kingdom of Serbia
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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