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Contributors

Petra Babić (petra.babic10@gmail.com)
is a researcher within the project “Institutionalization of Modern Bourgeois
Musical Culture in the 19th Century in Civil Croatia and Military Frontier”
at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an external associate at
the Department of History at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb.
She is the author of one scholarly book, editor or co-editor of four scholarly
proceedings, and has published 18 articles. She has taken an active part in
31 national and international scholarly conferences, and worked as a co-or-
ganiser of five conferences in Croatia.

Dušan Bavdek (Dusan.Bavdek@ag.uni-lj.si)
is the President of the Society of Slovene Composers and a Professor of
Composition and Music Theory at the Academy of Music of the Universi-
ty of Ljubljana (UL).
His compositional opus encompasses pieces for symphony orchestra, string
orchestra, wind orchestra, opera, ensemble, choir, chamber groups, and so-
loistic performances. These works have been presented as part of the sub-
scription cycles of Slovenian orchestras, choirs, and music theatres, as well
as at concerts elsewhere in Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. He has
led many compositional workshops, lectured at various music academies,
and served as a jury member for composition competitions in numerous
European countries.

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