Jorgjia Filçe-Truja
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From left to right: Jorgjia Filce-Truja, Lola Gjoka, and Tefta Tashko-Koco in the '30.
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| Born | 20 January 1907 |
| Origin | Korçë, Ottoman Albania |
| Died | 1994 Tirana, Albania |
| Genres | Urban songs, opera |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, academic |
| Associated acts | Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute choir |
Jorgjia Filçe-Truja (1907a[›] – 1994) was an Albanian soprano.[1] She was one the icons of the Albanian urban lyrical music,[2] and one of the main contributors for the establishment of the Academy of Arts of Albania.[3]
Life
She was born in Korçë, today's eastern Albania, back then still part of the Ottoman Empire on 20 January 1907. She studied in the Santa Сеcilia Conservatory in Rome during 1927–1932. She gave many concerts during the '30s-'50s,[4] becoming an icon of the urban lyrical music in Albania. Together with Tefta Tashko-Koço and Marie Kraja, she represented the avant-garde of the lyrical music in the country.[3] Together with the pianist Lola Gjoka, she is interpreted urban songs as U mbush mali plot me dushk (The mountain became full of oak trees), As aman moj lule (Please you flower), Erdh' prandvera plot lule (The spring came full of flowers), Kroj i fshatit tonë (Spring of our village), Kur më shkoje lumit goce (When you went along the river my girl), etc.[5]
Truja was one of the first pedagogues of the Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute for girls in Tirana.[1] After WWII, she became one of the initiators for bringing the artistic life of Albanian into an academic path by establishing the first higher art institutions, such as Jordan Misja Lyceum in 1946, Academy of Arts of Albania, where she lectured canto and conducting. She interpreted in many operas and brought to the stage many works as a director. She died in Tirana in 1994, leaving behind an autobiographical work.[3]
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ a: 1909 has been accepted before the original birth-certificate in Turkish was discovered
References
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Further reading
- Ëndrra dhe realitete: monografi kushtuar artistes shqiptare Jorgjie Truja (Filçe), Hamide Stringa; ed. Loredan Bubani, Tirana: Toena, 2006. ISBN 99943-1-134-4.
- Muza e parë: rrëfim autobiografik, Vasil S. Tole; Takuina Truja Adami, Tirana: Albas, 2014, ISBN 9789928023506.
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- 1907 births
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- Albanian opera singers
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- People from Korçë
- People from Manastir Vilayet
- 20th-century singers
- 20th-century Albanian musicians
- University of Arts of Albania faculty
- Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute faculty
