Nenad Barački

Nenad Barački (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Барачки; Bođani, Vojvodina, then Austria Hungary, 25 September 1878 - Sombor, Serbia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 23 May 1939) was a Serbian priest, religious teacher, editor., and a proponent of church chanting in the old Slavonic tradition of hymnography.

Biography

He was born on 25 September 1878 in Bođani, Vojvodina, then Austria-Hungary. He was educated in Sremski Karlovci and the Kovilje monastery. After finishing the seminary, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He later served as a parish priest in the Eparchy of Timisoara until the beginning of the First World War During the war, he served as a military chaplain in the units of the Austro-Hungarian army. He participated in the Paris Peace Conference (1919). After the war, he taught religious studies, singing and was a choirmaster at the male teachers' school in Sombor. He was a member of Matica Srpska and the Society of Saint Sava. He died in Sombor on 23 May 1939.

For most of his life, he was engaged in Serbian church singing, recording a large number of traditional church songs using the modern notation system, like Kornelije Stanković, Stevan Mokranjac, Stevan Hristić, Stanislav Binički, Kosta Manojlović and others.

Works

• Sheet music collection of church chants according to Karlovac chant (1923)
• Collection of liturgical songs Holy and Good Friday, vespers and vespers on the cry of the Mother of God (1925)
• Collection of liturgical songs Holy and Good Friday, vespers and vespers on the cry of the Mother of God (1925)
• Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1925), based on a Russian tune for two children's voices
• Nativity of God or Christmas (1926)
• Stichira general to the Serbian saints
• Resurrection of Christ or Easter (1935)
• Hymn to His Holiness Patriarch Varnava
• Liturgy (harmonizations)
• Service of St. Cyril and Methodius
• History of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1932)
• History of the Christian Church

References

• Translated from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B8

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