Dragutin Čolić
Dragutin Colic ( - Pozega, January 26 1907 - Belgrade, 1987) was a Serbian composer, publicist and pedagogue. He entered the music scene in the thirties years 20 century, as a composer of the "Prague Group", student of Alojz Haba and follower of his radical modernism. As a lecturer, he worked for almost four decades at the Music Academy. As a publicist and critic, he collaborated with music magazines and dailies. From 1945 to 1946 he worked as a choirmaster in Kud Abrašević. From 1949 he was a member of the expert council ensemble "Kolo" He has participated in the work  of the Association of Composers of Serbia since its founding, edited and published the first catalog of members of the association. Biography. He was born in 1907 in Požega near Užice. He acquired his basic musical knowledge at the Music School in Belgrade. After that, he was educated in Prague (1929-1932), in the class of Jaroslav Križička, Karl Boleslav Jirak and Aljoz Haba, at the State Conservatory, as well as in the class of Jozef Suk at the Master School. During his studies, he was considered the most devoted follower of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. After returning from  his studies in Belgrade, he devoted himself to music criticism and began teaching theoretical subjects at Stanković Music School. From 1937, he worked at the High School of Music of the Music Academy. From 1940 to 1977 he was a professor at the Academy of Music. He collaborated with magazines: Muzički glasnik (1932), Zvuk (1932—1933), Pravda (1933—1935), Srpski književni glasnik (1937), Slavenska muzika (1939—1940), Život i rad (1938) , Vreme (1939), and after World War II and with the daily Borba.