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members also a Vereinsmitglied, so as a member of the orchestra, organ-
ised as an association. That is namely a period of his life that in the Slove-
nian literature to my knowledge has not yet been properly researched, not
yet including the information from the material, accessible in the Vienna
archives.14
Before I turn to the individual challenging examples of the music as-
sociations, let me briefly introduce the key tenets of the Associations’ Act
from November 15, 1867.15 In so doing, I will also offer my explanation why
contrary to the prevailing views in the literature especially that of the pe-
riod, the Act in its important part was not inherently liberal nor it repre-
sented a major turning point in granting the associations the autonomy
as envisaged by the Constitution.16 In the historiographic literature, this
point of view is by no means a novelty. To my mind, a rich historical con-
text along with the apt deconstruction of the idea of liberalism at the time
around 1848 in Austria, and among a wider public in Vienna especially, is
given by Pieter M. Judson in his widely acclaimed work Wien brennt!17 It is
not too soon to point out that whenever the adjective liberal accompanies
the 1867 Associations’ Act it has to be strictly understood in terms of the
ideas of the time.
Coming from the field of legal history and in my research of the last
two decades having built on the work of my illustrious predecessors, es-
pecially Sergij Vilfan,18 with the hereditary lands of the Habsburgs (Land;
more, must include his time with Philharmoniker as a substitute. Karel Jeraj, “[a
short autobiography],” Zbori X, no. 3: (1934): 13–4. More on Jeraj, infra.
14 Cf. Katja Novak, “Ustvarjalno življenje Karla Jeraja in njegova glasbena zapuščina,”
(dipl., Univerza v Ljubljani, 2006). The sources from the Viennese archives that I
have used are those from the House und Hof Archiv of the Austrian State Archives,
and from the Historical Archives of Vienna Philharmonic.
15 Gesetz über das Vereinsrecht vom 15. November 1867, R G. Bl. Nr. 134, which was
passed together and should not be mistaken with Gesetz über das Versammlungsre
cht, R. G. Bl., Nr. 135. In the official literature (instructions) of the time, it was clearly
accentuated, that some of the paragraphs (and ideas behind them) from the Assem-
bly Act cannot and should not be applicable in the situations covered by the Associa-
tions’ Act, in order to circumvent the aims of the latter. Cf. Samuel Freund, Vereins-
und Versammlungs-Gesetz. Zum Gebrauche für politische Beamte und Vereine. 2.
Auflage (Wien: s. n., 1894) [Nachdruck vom ProLIBRIS.at, 2014], 80.
16 Das Staatsgrundgesetz vom 21. December 1867, R. G. Bl. Nr. 142 on the fundamen-
tal human rights (Art. 11–13, 16–17, 19–20).
17 Pieter M. Judson, Wien brennt! Die Revolution von 1848 und ihr liberales Erbe (Wien,
Köln, Weimar: Böhlau, 1998).
18 For the most recent monography on the Empire see Pieter M. Judson, The Habsburg
Empire (A New History) (Harvard: Belknap, 2016). However, for a still valid legal his-
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members also a Vereinsmitglied, so as a member of the orchestra, organ-
ised as an association. That is namely a period of his life that in the Slove-
nian literature to my knowledge has not yet been properly researched, not
yet including the information from the material, accessible in the Vienna
archives.14
Before I turn to the individual challenging examples of the music as-
sociations, let me briefly introduce the key tenets of the Associations’ Act
from November 15, 1867.15 In so doing, I will also offer my explanation why
contrary to the prevailing views in the literature especially that of the pe-
riod, the Act in its important part was not inherently liberal nor it repre-
sented a major turning point in granting the associations the autonomy
as envisaged by the Constitution.16 In the historiographic literature, this
point of view is by no means a novelty. To my mind, a rich historical con-
text along with the apt deconstruction of the idea of liberalism at the time
around 1848 in Austria, and among a wider public in Vienna especially, is
given by Pieter M. Judson in his widely acclaimed work Wien brennt!17 It is
not too soon to point out that whenever the adjective liberal accompanies
the 1867 Associations’ Act it has to be strictly understood in terms of the
ideas of the time.
Coming from the field of legal history and in my research of the last
two decades having built on the work of my illustrious predecessors, es-
pecially Sergij Vilfan,18 with the hereditary lands of the Habsburgs (Land;
more, must include his time with Philharmoniker as a substitute. Karel Jeraj, “[a
short autobiography],” Zbori X, no. 3: (1934): 13–4. More on Jeraj, infra.
14 Cf. Katja Novak, “Ustvarjalno življenje Karla Jeraja in njegova glasbena zapuščina,”
(dipl., Univerza v Ljubljani, 2006). The sources from the Viennese archives that I
have used are those from the House und Hof Archiv of the Austrian State Archives,
and from the Historical Archives of Vienna Philharmonic.
15 Gesetz über das Vereinsrecht vom 15. November 1867, R G. Bl. Nr. 134, which was
passed together and should not be mistaken with Gesetz über das Versammlungsre
cht, R. G. Bl., Nr. 135. In the official literature (instructions) of the time, it was clearly
accentuated, that some of the paragraphs (and ideas behind them) from the Assem-
bly Act cannot and should not be applicable in the situations covered by the Associa-
tions’ Act, in order to circumvent the aims of the latter. Cf. Samuel Freund, Vereins-
und Versammlungs-Gesetz. Zum Gebrauche für politische Beamte und Vereine. 2.
Auflage (Wien: s. n., 1894) [Nachdruck vom ProLIBRIS.at, 2014], 80.
16 Das Staatsgrundgesetz vom 21. December 1867, R. G. Bl. Nr. 142 on the fundamen-
tal human rights (Art. 11–13, 16–17, 19–20).
17 Pieter M. Judson, Wien brennt! Die Revolution von 1848 und ihr liberales Erbe (Wien,
Köln, Weimar: Böhlau, 1998).
18 For the most recent monography on the Empire see Pieter M. Judson, The Habsburg
Empire (A New History) (Harvard: Belknap, 2016). However, for a still valid legal his-
220
