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the foundation of a free state is a free (music) association? continuity and change ...

Picture 7: An invitation to join the ‘Orkestralno društvo of the Glasbena
matica’ as a founding or a supporting member, by contributing the necessary
payment (in Sloven. Nabiralna pola), set by the Article 2 of the poslovni red
(Geschäftsordnung) from January 29, 1921. The invitation refers to the orchestra’s
founding in May 1919 with the intent to evolve as quickly as feasible into Slovenian
Philharmonic. Signed in the name of its Committee by Ivan Karlin. NUK, Music
Collection, fond GM, Orkestralno društvo, Dopisi O.

A telling document from 1921, a so-called Nabiralna pola for the Ork­
estralno društvo, confirms what Jeraj later wrote in his short biography68 on
the reason for his drive and desire to leave the Vienna Philharmonic and

68 Jeraj, “[a short autobiography],” 13–4.

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