Slavko Osterc (17.6.1895 – 23.5.1941)

He finished elementary school in Veržej. Realko in Ljutomer. As a very talented child of music, he decided to study the teaching profession and ended the teaching center in Maribor. He spent his first official years in Krčevina, Sevnica and Celje, where he founded his string quartet. This is where he also starts to compose. First, the songs for youth, later self -singing, both on the lyrics of Oton Župančič, his friend. Since his teaching profession was not professional enough to him, he decided to study at the Conservatory in Prague, Czech Republic, where his associates and musicians of the new modernity had already been composed. He wrote many songs there, including the Opera Baptism at Savica and the chalk circle. In Slovenia, he encountered great criticism of his colleagues of composers who at that time advocated and composed romance. After completing his studies in Prague, he got a job as a lecturer at the Ljubljana Conservatory. His medical condition deteriorated after World War I, as he was wounded at the Isonzo War and soon afterwards began to ache for an incurable disease. He is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Ljubljana Žale.

In 1963, a monument, the work of sculptor Marjan Keršič, was erected on the market and a commemorative room in the cooperative home was erected. Also commemorating him every year of the last Saturday of May, they organize concerts.