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Contributors
(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb) in 2008, and re-
ceived her PhD in 2017 at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
in Graz. She is a collaborator on the current project of the Croatian Science
Foundation “Institutionalization of modern bourgeois musical culture in
the 19th century in civil Croatia and the Military Border (MusInst19)”. She
has participated in some 40 symposia in Croatia and abroad. She is active-
ly researching the history of Croatian music, with a special interest in the
following topics: music theory in the 18th century, specific aspects of Croa-
tian music (17th to 20th centuries), digital musicology, preservation of mu-
sical heritage, music archives in Croatia. Since 2020 she has been the edi-
tor-in-chief of Arti musices Croatian musicological journal.

Sonja Kralj (sonja.kralj@gov.si)
began her career as a soprano in the Slovenian Chamber Choir (now the
Slovenian Philharmonic Choir) before moving into music project manage-
ment at the Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana. She then joined the Ministry of
Culture, where she held various roles in music, cultural policy, and EU and
international affairs. She currently serves as a counsellor for culture and
audiovisual affairs at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slo-
venia to the European Union in Brussels and as the national representa-
tive at the EU Council‘s Cultural Affairs Committee, which she chaired as
the first Slovenian in 2008. She is the author of books on Ljubljana‘s work-
ers‘ singing societies during the national awakening period and on the con-
ductor Marko Munih, as well as numerous articles. She wrote the script for
an RTV Slovenia documentary film about the history of the Society of Slo-
vene Composers. She also created and hosted a series of public events called
‚Conversations with Composers‘ for seven years. In the field of cultural pol-
icy, she was the editor-in-chief of the Ministry of Culture‘s e-book analys-
ing the state of culture in Slovenia. She chaired a group of experts from EU
Member States who published a report on the role of public cultural institu-
tions in promoting cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. She is cur-
rently co-chairing the group of EU experts on the governance of the EU‘s
international cultural relations.

Hartmut Krones (krones@mdw.ac.at)
geb. 1944 in Wien, studierte Musikerziehung und Germanistik für das
Lehramt (Mag.), Gesang, Gesangspädagogik (Mag. art.) sowie Musikwis-
senschaft (Dr. phil.), unterrichtet seit 1970 an der Akademie (1998 Universi-
tät) für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien und leitete bis September 2013

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