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summaries
Katja Škrubej
The foundation of a free state is a free (music) association?
Continuity and change after 1849/67 in Vienna
and Ljubljana: Contribution to the history of orchestra
en tant que association
In the history of music associations of the Habsburg monarchy, the Asso-
ciations’ Act from 1867 announced key changes, promised by the revolu-
tionary year 1848. The most obvious difference between pre- and post-1867
associations, still largely under the unaltered names, was the exclusion of
the profit-oriented ones from the overall umbrella notion. Regarding the
alleged liberality of the 1867 Act, in view of freedom of assembly no sig-
nificant reduction of the authorities’ right to supervision took place. The
important difference was enacted concerning the freedom of association
proper with the adoption of the so-called application model in lieu of the
earlier concession one. It was from the point of view of different strategies
of adaptation to this legal reality by the five cases selected, that further con-
clusions were drawn, taking into account the newly found archival materi-
al. The Philharmonic Society in Ljubljana, for which a question, challeng-
ing her self-perception with regards to the year 1702 was first elaborated,
in the course of the 19th century followed diligently any new regulation the
state may have introduced by altering its Statutes. On the other hand, the
Vienna Philharmonic did not follow suit. It crafted a particular sui generis
organisational form that allowed it to aspire to the very notion of self-gov-
ernment that the 1867 Act had not yet permitted. In Ljubljana, the members
of the associations of the first Slovene Philharmonic, as well as of Glasbe-
na matica with regards to Orkestralno društvo, largely jurists by vocation,
contributed to overcoming of the challenging issue of how to viably inte-
grate larger orchestral bodies within the existing organisational forms by
creative legal thinking. I proposed to see the operative idea of a »loose link«
by Milčinski as a case in point. In the end and from a reversed perspective
of a member of an association, some of the complex experiences of Karel
Jeraj are touched upon, together with select new factual evidence, partly by
way of illustrating Rudolf Andrejka’s apt metaphor on an association as a
reinforced person.
Keywords: association, orchestra, Philharmonic Society, Slovene Philhar-
monic, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karel Jeraj
485
Katja Škrubej
The foundation of a free state is a free (music) association?
Continuity and change after 1849/67 in Vienna
and Ljubljana: Contribution to the history of orchestra
en tant que association
In the history of music associations of the Habsburg monarchy, the Asso-
ciations’ Act from 1867 announced key changes, promised by the revolu-
tionary year 1848. The most obvious difference between pre- and post-1867
associations, still largely under the unaltered names, was the exclusion of
the profit-oriented ones from the overall umbrella notion. Regarding the
alleged liberality of the 1867 Act, in view of freedom of assembly no sig-
nificant reduction of the authorities’ right to supervision took place. The
important difference was enacted concerning the freedom of association
proper with the adoption of the so-called application model in lieu of the
earlier concession one. It was from the point of view of different strategies
of adaptation to this legal reality by the five cases selected, that further con-
clusions were drawn, taking into account the newly found archival materi-
al. The Philharmonic Society in Ljubljana, for which a question, challeng-
ing her self-perception with regards to the year 1702 was first elaborated,
in the course of the 19th century followed diligently any new regulation the
state may have introduced by altering its Statutes. On the other hand, the
Vienna Philharmonic did not follow suit. It crafted a particular sui generis
organisational form that allowed it to aspire to the very notion of self-gov-
ernment that the 1867 Act had not yet permitted. In Ljubljana, the members
of the associations of the first Slovene Philharmonic, as well as of Glasbe-
na matica with regards to Orkestralno društvo, largely jurists by vocation,
contributed to overcoming of the challenging issue of how to viably inte-
grate larger orchestral bodies within the existing organisational forms by
creative legal thinking. I proposed to see the operative idea of a »loose link«
by Milčinski as a case in point. In the end and from a reversed perspective
of a member of an association, some of the complex experiences of Karel
Jeraj are touched upon, together with select new factual evidence, partly by
way of illustrating Rudolf Andrejka’s apt metaphor on an association as a
reinforced person.
Keywords: association, orchestra, Philharmonic Society, Slovene Philhar-
monic, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karel Jeraj
485
