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IVAN GUNDULICH (1588-1638)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 722 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IVAN See also:GUNDULICH (1588-1638)  , known also as Giovanni Gondola, Servian poet, was See also:born at See also:Ragusa on the 8th of See also:January 1588 . His See also:father, Franco See also:Gundulich, once the Ragusan See also:envoy to See also:Constantinople and councillor of' the See also:republic, gave him an excellent See also:education . He studied the " humanities " with the Jesuit, Father Muzzi, and See also:philosophy with Father See also:Ricasoli . After that he studied See also:Roman See also:law and See also:jurisprudence in See also:general . He was member of the See also:Lower See also:Council and once served as the 1 See also:Air-dried See also:guncotton will contain 2 % , or less of moisture.See also:chief See also:magistrate of the republic . He died on the 8th of See also:December 1638 . A born poet, he admired much the See also:Italian poets of his See also:time, from whom he made many See also:translations into Servian . It is believed that he so translated See also:Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata . He is known to have written eighteen See also:works, of which eleven were dramas, but of these only three have been fully preserved. others having perished during the See also:great See also:earthquake and See also:fire in 1667 . Most of those dramas were translations from the Italian, and were played, seemingly with great success, by the amateurs furnished by the See also:noble families of Ragusa . But his greatest and justly celebrated See also:work is an epic, entitled See also:Osman, in twenty cantos . It is the first See also:political epic on the Eastern Question, glorifying the victory of the Poles over See also:Turks and See also:Tatars in the See also:campaign of 1621, and encouraging a See also:league of the See also:Christian nations, under the guidance of Vladislaus, the See also:king of See also:Poland, for the purpqse of See also:driving away the Turks from See also:Europe .

The fourteenth and fifteenth cantos are lost . It is generally believed that the Ragusan See also:

government suppressed them from See also:consideration for the See also:Sultan, the See also:protector of the republic, those two cantos having been violently See also:anti-See also:Turkish . Osman was printed for the first time in Ragusa in 1826, the two missing cantos being replaced by songs written by Pietro Sorgo (or Sorkochevich) . From this edition the learned Italian, See also:Francesco See also:Appendini, made an Italian See also:translation published in 1827 . Since that time several other See also:editions have been made . The best are considered to be the edition of the See also:South See also:Slavonic See also:Academy in See also:Agram (1877) and the edition published in See also:Semlin (1889) by See also:Professor Yovan Boshkovich . In the edition of 1844 (Agram) the last cantos, fourteen and fifteen, were replaced by very See also:fine compositions of the Serbo-Croatian poet, Mazhuranich (Mazuranic) . The See also:complete works of Gundulich have been published in Agram, 1847, by V . Babukich and by the South Slavonic Academy of Agram in 1889 . (C . M1.) GUNG'L, JOSEF (1810-1889), Hungarian composer and conductor, was born on the 1st of December 181o, at Zsambek, in See also:Hungary . After starting See also:life as a school-teacher, and learning the elements of See also:music from Ofen, the school-choirmaster, he became first oboist at See also:Graz, and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th See also:regiment of See also:Austrian See also:artillery .

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composition, a Hungarian See also:march, written in 1836, attracted some See also:notice, and in 1843 he was able to establish an See also:orchestra in See also:Berlin . With this See also:band he travelled far, even (in 1849) to See also:America . It is See also:worth recording that Mendelssohn's complete Midsummer See also:Night's See also:Dream music is said to have been first played by Gung'l's band . In 1853 he became bandmaster to the 23rd See also:Infantry Regiment at Briinn, but in 1864 he lived at See also:Munich, and in 1876 at See also:Frankfort, after (in 1873) having conducted with great success a See also:series of See also:promenade concerts at Covent See also:Garden, See also:London . From Frankfort Gung'l went to See also:Weimar to live with his daughter, a well-known See also:German See also:opera See also:singer and See also:local prima donna . There he died, on the 31st of January 1889 . Gung'l's dances number over 300, perhaps the most popular being the " Amoretten," "Hydropaten," "See also:Casino," "Dreams on the Ocean" waltzes; " In Stiller Mitternacht " See also:polka, and " See also:Blue Violets " See also:mazurka . His Hungarian march was transcribed by See also:Liszt . His music is characterized by the same.easy flowing melodies and well-marked See also:rhythm that distinguish the dances of See also:Strauss, to whom alone he can be ranked second in this See also:kind of composition .

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