URBAN KODER -

A person who managed to "brilliantly capture the Slovenian soul in the simple melody
for the zither."

4th March 1928, Ljubljana, † 9th Jnuary 2019, Ljubljana

Urban Koder studied medicine and worked as a doctor. He joined his first music band
when he was thirteen and then played the trumpet in the Dance Orchestra a few years
later in 1945.

He conducted the Ljubljana Jazz Ensemble when it made the first jazz record in post-war
Yugoslavia and was one of the founders of the Yugoslav Jazz Festival and later also the
Ljubljana Jazz Festival.

He collaborated with music giants like Henry Mancini and Luis Armstrong and all top
musicians of the region.

He wrote countless pieces of music, including some 100 chansons and music for
children's theatre and radio plays. He made music for 20 feature films, four
documentaries, ten TV series and 15 short animated films.

BLOSSOMS IN AUTUMN

Urban’s best known work is the music for Matjaž Klopčič's 1973 movie Cvetje v
Jeseni (Blossoms in Autumn).
Cvetje v Jeseni is a beuautiful love story between Meta and Janez. While Meta lives in
the countryside, Janez is from the capital of Slovenia – Ljubljana. The story’s end is sad
– Meta dies after Janez asks her to marry him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvPFEvrpCWg

"If Urban Koder wrote nothing but the music for Blossoms in Autumn he would have still
been listed among the giants of Slovenian music," the president's office said when
presenting him with the Silver Order of Merit.

THE MUSIC

Solo – the zither

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC41Z9Jn0yk

Mandolin Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqDOODGcPV4

Solo – the piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kd_oMk0K_U

Solo – the flute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YQFcou5tCM