65 DOI: 10.4312/mz.57.1.65-84 UDK 78(497.5Pula)"1899-1917":355.353:929Jaksch F. From the History of Military Music in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Franz Jaksch, the Pula Navy Orchestra Bandmaster (1899‒1917) Lada Duraković, a Marijana Kokanović Marković b a Juraj Dobrila University in Pula b University of Novi Sad ABSTRACT Te subject of this paper is the work of Franz Jaksch (1851–1931), a versatile musician who served as the bandmaster of the Imperial and Royal Navy Orchestra in Pula, the main port of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in the period between 1899 and 1917. It was in Pula that he composed most of his pieces tailored for military orchestras, opera stages and bour- geois salons. During his bandmaster term, the Navy Orchestra performed some of the most signifcant orchestral pieces from the symphonic repertoire. Keywords: Franz Jaksch, Navy Orchestra (K. u. K. Marinemusik), Pula IZVLEČEK Članek obravnava dejavnost vsestranskega glasbenika Franza Jakscha (1851‒1931), ki je bil med letoma 1899 in 1917 dirigent Orkestra Cesarske in kraljevske mornarice (Mornariške- ga orkestra) v Pulju, glavnem pristanišču Avstro-Ogrske monarhije. Večina njegovih skladb je nastala v Pulju; napisane so za vojaške orkestre, operne odre in meščanske salone. Pod njegovim vodstvom je orkester puljskemu občinstvu predstavil nekaj najpomembnejših del simfoničnega repertoarja. Ključne besede: Franz Jaksch, Mornariški orkester (K. u. K. Marinemusik), Pulj * Tis paper is a part of the project Military Music in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Te Band- masters of the Pula Navy Orchestra 1872−1918 (Academy of Music in Pula, the head of the project is Lada Duraković).