Vinko Jelić

Vinko Jelić (1596 - after 22 July 1636) was a Croatian Baroque composer, singer and musician. He is considered among the most prominent European creators of the early Baroque chamber sacred concerto. He is also considered as the most prolific Croatian Baroque composer, along with Ivan Lukačić. A total of 69 of Jelić’s vocal (soloist and choral) and 12 instrumental works have been preserved; several compositions with lost tenor lines were supplemented by Lovro Županović, the editor of Jelić’s works. Life He was born in Rijeka in 1596. From 1606, with his older brother Petar (d. 1609), he was a choirboy singer in the court chapel of Archduke Ferdinand in Graz, where his teacher was the Italian Matthias Ferrabosco, then deputy music director. After a one-year stay in Rijeka in 1609, he returned to Graz in 1610 and, becoming a pupil of the Ferdinandeum, attended grammar school and participated in church music as a discantist. He then studied at the Jesuit University in Graz and graduated from theology in 1617; at the same time, he was an instrumentalist in the court chapel from 1615. In 1618, he entered the service of Ferdinand’s brother, Archduke Leopold, administrator of the dioceses