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summaries
were particularly important for a multinational company of the Galician
country. GMA influenced the development of professional and amateur
music in various social and national environments, significantly enriched
concert life, and supported professional music education not only in Lviv
but throughout Galicia, served as a model for similar institutions in other
cities. Members of the GMA have been intensively involved in various ar-
tistic activities, have taken care of aesthetic education of society and have
adopted the latest achievements of European music.
The association included not only hundreds of music lovers and amateurs,
but also numerous highly professional musicians - singers, instrumental-
ists, conductors, composers, teachers, and musicologists. Here was promot-
ed the work of the local composers. Thanks to the initiative of the GMA
and its active members, Lviv heard outstanding musicians of his time –
Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Stanislaw Moniuszko, etc.
Keywords: the Galician Music Association, Lviv; Galicia, cultural-social
functions
Darja Koter
The social-political role and cultural-educational mission
of Ptuj music societies in the second half of the 19th century,
and their influence on the Ptuj Glasbena Matica
Although situated in an area that has been populated by Slovenians for cen-
turies, the lower Styrian town of Ptuj was regarded as a German town in the
second half of the 19th century. Most of the townspeople were German by
nationality, while Slovenians mostly lived near the town and in rural areas.
The educated townspeople included all-roundinfluential Slovenians of var-
ious professions, who led efforts to strengthen patriotism and develop gen-
eral and musical culture. Until the 1860s, membership of music societies
was mixed in terms of nationality, as members merely had to possess broad
general knowledge and take part in the activity of the society in question.
The social-political and cultural movements in this area followed the over-
all European trends; from the 1870s on, they intensified political differenc-
es and strengthened the national consciousness, whereby music societies
played an educational and agitational role. The Männergesangverein Pettau
choral society (1863), the National Reading Society (1864), which was devel-
oping music education along with choral singing, the Pettauer Musikvere
in (1878) with its instrumental activity and a renowned public music school,
as well as the Town Band, which was led by professionally trained band-
477
were particularly important for a multinational company of the Galician
country. GMA influenced the development of professional and amateur
music in various social and national environments, significantly enriched
concert life, and supported professional music education not only in Lviv
but throughout Galicia, served as a model for similar institutions in other
cities. Members of the GMA have been intensively involved in various ar-
tistic activities, have taken care of aesthetic education of society and have
adopted the latest achievements of European music.
The association included not only hundreds of music lovers and amateurs,
but also numerous highly professional musicians - singers, instrumental-
ists, conductors, composers, teachers, and musicologists. Here was promot-
ed the work of the local composers. Thanks to the initiative of the GMA
and its active members, Lviv heard outstanding musicians of his time –
Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Stanislaw Moniuszko, etc.
Keywords: the Galician Music Association, Lviv; Galicia, cultural-social
functions
Darja Koter
The social-political role and cultural-educational mission
of Ptuj music societies in the second half of the 19th century,
and their influence on the Ptuj Glasbena Matica
Although situated in an area that has been populated by Slovenians for cen-
turies, the lower Styrian town of Ptuj was regarded as a German town in the
second half of the 19th century. Most of the townspeople were German by
nationality, while Slovenians mostly lived near the town and in rural areas.
The educated townspeople included all-roundinfluential Slovenians of var-
ious professions, who led efforts to strengthen patriotism and develop gen-
eral and musical culture. Until the 1860s, membership of music societies
was mixed in terms of nationality, as members merely had to possess broad
general knowledge and take part in the activity of the society in question.
The social-political and cultural movements in this area followed the over-
all European trends; from the 1870s on, they intensified political differenc-
es and strengthened the national consciousness, whereby music societies
played an educational and agitational role. The Männergesangverein Pettau
choral society (1863), the National Reading Society (1864), which was devel-
oping music education along with choral singing, the Pettauer Musikvere
in (1878) with its instrumental activity and a renowned public music school,
as well as the Town Band, which was led by professionally trained band-
477
