The Pavane and Galliard for an Elizabethan duo (for Violin and Guitar)

Željko Brkanović (Zagreb, 1937 – Crikvenica, 2018) was a composer, pianist, conductor and teacher who graduated from the piano program of the Zagreb Music Academy under Prof. Svetislav Stančić (1962) and the composition program of the Faculty of Music Art in Skopje under Prof. Toma Prošev (1980). He further studied composition in Stuttgart (with composer Erhard Karkoschka). He was also taught by his father, composer Ivan Brkanović. Željko Brkanović studied conducting at the Chigiana Academy in Siena (1965). Željko Brkanović’s oeuvre contains around seventy soloist, organ, chamber, concerto, orchestral, and stage works, choral compositions and solo songs, as well as multiple adaptations, including his father’s final great work – Missa profana croatica, an oratorio for solos, mixed choir and orchestra composed in 1986, and completed by the son in 1994. The Pavane and Galliard for an Elizabethan duo for violin and guitar is written 1999 for Laura Vadjon and Romana Matanovac, and they first performed the piece in Umag (Croatia) on 5th August 1999.