In 1999, the Municipality of Prebold honoured the memory of Anton Schwab by attaching a commemorative plaque to his birthplace.
Anton Schwab
Composer, doctor and chess player Anton Schwab (1868–1938) conducted the Celje Choral Society as a regens chori to great success. He achieved distinction as a talented self-taught composer with his choral works, which have become part of the national vocal repertoire in Slovenia.
Although choosing a medical profession (graduating in medicine in Graz and working as a doctor in Vransko and Celje), he also engaged in composing vocal music, predominantly musical settings of poems by Oton Župančič. His choral songs are imbued with patriotic sentiments, primarily voiced through the incorporation of elements of the Slovenian folk melodies on which his simply-structured musical texture is built.
Among his most notable compositions are Zdrava Marija, Pesem o rožici and Da sem jaz ptičica (Hail Mary, Song about a Flower, If I Were a Bird). Some of his compositions reflect the influence of composers who contributed to the Novi akordi (New Chords) publication, and whose characteristic style entailed a departure from the chromatic harmony of late romanticism and a tendency towards embracing innovation and a different way of employing the folk tradition.
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