JOSIP KLIMA - AN ARTIST, VIOLIN PEDAGOGUE AND A VERSATILE PERSONALITY

Sa？etak Josip Klima (1927. – 2012.) is one of the most important Croatian violinists in the second half of the twentieth century. He acted as a violin virtuoso, orchestral and chamber musician as well as a violin pedagogue. Musicians, audience and critics were attracted by his universality and personality. General public had known him as a player of salon and popular music. Besides professional activities, he also payed attention to amateur performing. He received numerous distinguished acknowledgements and awards. In this article his artistic and pedagogical lifepath is presented chronologically. However, there are some discrepances between primary documentation and secondary literature about his work, at which it was pointed in this paper