Igor Štuhec (15 December 1932 – September 2024[1]) was a contemporary Slovenian composer, who lived in Ljubljana and Maribor.
He studied composition at the Ljubljana Academy of Music under Lucijan Marija Škerjanc and Matija Bravničar.
He continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art under Hanns Jelinek, and also at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.
Although in 1955 he had produced a musique concrète composition in Biological Transformation, the radical change came with the chamber pieces Situacija (1963) and Silhuete (1964) and the orchestral Differentiations (1964), all of which exhibit his assimilation of 12-note and aleatory procedures.
A later group of orchestral works extending his textural techniques, notably the concertos and the three Entuziazmi pieces, display a vivid imagination and a strong rhythmic momentum.