page_title: Music composition and composers in Pristina
section_title: Rauf Dhomi
hierarchical_section_title: Music composition and composers in Pristina / Composers in Pristina / Rauf Dhomi
context_page_description: Music composition and composers in Pristina refers to music composition and composers who have left their mark in Pristina. The importance of Kosovan Folklore on the different genres, their development and their popularity. As referring to genres as a categorization would not cover all compositions and composers in a fair way, a highlight of every composers work and different genres is provided because of the different genres a composers work has included throughout the years.
context_section_description: Rauf Dhomi (born 1945) is a composer who studied at the Music Academy in Sarajevo where he took the exam in composition
  He was born in Gjakova and finished music high school in Prizren.
  Despite being more successful in composition his work as a kapellmeister marks another great success and high level, where among the most notable work was his direction and development of the male choir in Gjakova to a high art treatment level. As a composer he was very productive, and has composed several works, where we meet almost all forms of music from the Kosovan traditional music
  and many other music forms such as ballet music, chamber music, orchestral music.
  Rauf Dhomi is the composer of the first Kosovo -Albanian opera " Goca e Kaqanikut : by Milton Sotir Gurres(novel) which shows Albanians' struggle for freedom from the Ottoman Kingdom.
caption: Rauf Dhomi Kosovan Composer (left in the picture
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