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Legende (1906) is a solo work for trumpet and piano, composed by George Enescu and premiered by Merri Franquin, professor of cornet at the Paris Conservatoire. It reflects the impressionistic style of Enesco's teachers Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. The title is an homage to Professor Franquin. The piece reflects an important step in the evolution of the trumpet from a more archaic limited instrument, to a fully chromatic and soloistic instrument.

Legende's range extends from a low A-flat to a high C, with an ossia passage that extends only to high B-flat. The piece requires extensive triple tonguing and an unspecified mute.

Legende is in the key of C minor, and begins with a simple lyrical melody which reappears twice. The second time, it is played during the climax in the higher octave, and in the muted conclusion, it appears again in the original low register. In between each statement of the melody are technical passages which require extensive triple tonguing and chromatic fingering. The piano accompaniment is chordal in the lyrical passages, and virtuosic in the technical sections, matching the difficulty of the trumpet part with extensive runs and arpeggios.

External links[link]

• International Music Company - The U.S. publisher of Legende.
• Sheet Music
• Performance by Chris Carrillo
• Recording by Wolfgang Bauer

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Željko Samardžić (Жељко Самарџић, born October 3, 1955 in Mostar, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian pop-folk singer popular throughout the former Yugoslav republics.^[1] He lives and works in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade.

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Born to Montenegrin father Milivoje and mother Nada from the Mostar suburb of Ilići, Samardžić's father was a Yugoslav People's Army officer, which meant that the family had to move around a lot. After spending the first seven years of his life in Mostar, young Željko lived and attended school in Nikšić, Igalo and Zadar before eventually returning to Mostar during his teenage years.^[2]

He first started singing during high school, and soon became known around Mostar for being a good Kemal Monteno impersonator. Samardžić's musical activity during this period was essentially little more than a hobby as he didn't put out any official releases and mostly sang in kafanas and restaurants in addition to competing in the occasional obscure festival. The closest he came to wide main stream success was a schlager "Moja Marija je drugačija" that became a hit in Bosnia during 1970s after he performed it at Prvi aplauz festival in Banja Luka, but he mostly earned his living running a cafe in Mostar, located in close proximity to the famous Old Bridge.

When the war broke out in 1992, Željko was wounded in Mostar while sitting in his apartment while the chaotic fighting between the Muslim, Croat and Serbian army was raging outside. A stray bullet entered his leg and exited his hip. After much trouble, along with his wife and their daughter, he managed to flee the city through the Croat controlled western part of Herzegovina and eventually reach Serbia after going through Istria, Slovenia and Hungary. Once in Serbia, they lived in the Belgrade suburb of Borča and Samardžić soon started getting low-paying gigs in various discothèques and cafés, building up a fairly devoted niche audience. Almost 40 years old at this point, his big break came unexpectedly when some businessmen who enjoyed his nightclub performances brought him to the elite club Ambassador and also financed him with DM30,000 to record an album with Marina Tucaković and Aleksandar "Futa" Radulović. In 1995 he also appeared at the Pjesma Mediterana festival in Budva, where he left a great impression singing "Sipajte mi još jedan viski", which further opened the doors to show business.

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Discography[link]

• Oko tvoje neverno (1994)
• Bilo je lepo (1995)
• Sudbina (1995)
• Jednom kad nam dođu sijede (1996)
• Sjećanje na ljubav (1996)
• Zveket srca (1997)
• Sve je moje tvoje (1998)
• Sentimentalan čovek (2001)
• Lice ljubavi (2005)
• Ja Kunem Se U Ljubav i 16 Balada (2008)
• Kojim dobrom mila moja (2009)

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External links[link]

• Official web site
• Publika me održava u životu, Blic, March 8, 2008
• Koncert Željka Samardžića - 'Ljubavna adresa' bila je Zetra, Sarajevo-x.com, October 31, 2009

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Makadam	Pjesma Mediterana winner 1995	Succeeded by Bisera Veletanlić