“If the mother sings , her child will also sing .”

Folk songs in the musical opus of the composer Ubald Vrabec

Abstract

The singing of folk songs and instrumental musical performance among the family had an impact on Vrabec’s musical composition and interpretation throughout his life. As a composer and choirmaster, he contributed to the development of music in the Trieste area and in Slovenia. For many years, he directed choirs, composed his own songs, harmonised and arranged folk songs. His rich opus of arrangements of folk songs for various choirs, the use of folk songs in instrumental performances and in the opera, publication of folk song arrangements in song books, recording of songs in the Trieste region and for Radio Koper as well as the Radio Koper logogram represent an important contribution to Slovenian music culture.