Dragotin Cvetko

Dragotin Cvetko (19 September 1911 – 2 September 1993) was a Slovenian composer and musicologist.

Early life and education Dragotin Cvetko was born in Vučja Vas, a village in Styria, Austria-Hungary. After the war, on 24 July 1946, he married Nives Polak and they had one son and two daughters. In 1947, their daughter , a later prominent linguist, was born to them.

Academic career He taught at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana from 1938 to 1943 and from 1945 to 1962

Selected bibliography Problem občega muzikalnega vzgajanja ter izobraževanja (The Problem of General Music Education; Ljubljana, 1938) Život i rad kompozitora Rista Savina (The Life and Work of Risto Savin; Belgrade, 1958) Zgodovina glasbene umetnosti na Slovenskem (This History of Music in Slovenia; Ljubljana, 1958–1960) (with Josip Andreis and Stana Đurić-Klajn) Historijski razvoj muzičke kulture u Jugoslaviji (The Historical Develiopment of Musical Culture in Yugoslavia; Zagreb, 1962) Academia Philharmonicorum Labacensis (Ljubljana, 1962) Stoletja slovenske glasbe (Centuries of Slovenian Music; Ljubljana, 1964) Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (Ljubljana, 1965) Jacobus Gallus: sein Leben und Werk (The Life and Work of Jacobus Gallus; Munich, 1972) Musikgeschichte der Südslawen (Music History of the South Slavs; Kassel, 1975) Davorin Jenko (Ljubljana, 1980) Južni Slovani v zgodovini evropske glasbe (The South Slavs in the History of European Music; Maribor, 1981) Glasbeni svet Antona Lajovca = Anton Lajovic und seine Musikwelt (The Musical World of Anton Lajovic; Ljubljana, 1985) Anton Lajovic (Ljubljana, 1987) Iacobus Hándl Gallus vocatus Carniolanus (Ljubljana, 1991) Slovenska glasba v evropskem prostoru = Slovenian Music in Its European setting (Ljubljana, 1991) V prostoru in času: spomini (In Space and Time: Memories; Ljubljana, 1995)