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Alois Hába and Slovene Students
of Composition at the State Conservatory
in Prague
Jernej Weiss
Univerza v Ljubljani/Univerza v Mariboru
University of Ljubljana/University of Maribor
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, with Czech–Slovene
cultural and political connections having grown increasingly strong over
the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Prague became
the most important centre of university education for Slovenes.1 A conse-
quence of this was that the State Conservatory in Prague, an institution
founded more than a century earlier, also became increasingly attractive to
Slovene students in the new cultural and political reality of the Little En-
tente, despite the fact that this same period saw the establishment of the
conservatory of the Glasbena matica music society in Ljubljana (in 1919).2
For students from Slovenia, the names of illustrious teachers such as
Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Vítězslav Novák, Josef Suk and Václav Talich rep-
resented a guarantee of a good musical education, while they saw greater
opportunities for practical music-making in Prague, at that time unques-
tionably a musically more stimulating environment. Annual reports for in-
dividual academic years show that students from southern and eastern Eu-
ropean countries predominated at the State Conservatory in Prague in the
interwar period. Students came from Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, B ulgaria,
1 Vasilij Melik, “Češko-slovenski odnosi,” in Enciklopedija Slovenije, ed. Dušan Voglar
(Ljubljana: Založba Mladinska knjiga, 1988), 126.
2 Tatjana Dekleva, “Ljubljanska univerza od ustanovitve do začetka devetdesetih let,”
in 90. let Univerze v Ljubljani: med tradicijo in izzivi časa, ed. Jože Ciperle (Ljubljana:
Univerza v Ljubljani, 2009), 36–39.
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Alois Hába and Slovene Students
of Composition at the State Conservatory
in Prague
Jernej Weiss
Univerza v Ljubljani/Univerza v Mariboru
University of Ljubljana/University of Maribor
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, with Czech–Slovene
cultural and political connections having grown increasingly strong over
the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Prague became
the most important centre of university education for Slovenes.1 A conse-
quence of this was that the State Conservatory in Prague, an institution
founded more than a century earlier, also became increasingly attractive to
Slovene students in the new cultural and political reality of the Little En-
tente, despite the fact that this same period saw the establishment of the
conservatory of the Glasbena matica music society in Ljubljana (in 1919).2
For students from Slovenia, the names of illustrious teachers such as
Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Vítězslav Novák, Josef Suk and Václav Talich rep-
resented a guarantee of a good musical education, while they saw greater
opportunities for practical music-making in Prague, at that time unques-
tionably a musically more stimulating environment. Annual reports for in-
dividual academic years show that students from southern and eastern Eu-
ropean countries predominated at the State Conservatory in Prague in the
interwar period. Students came from Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, B ulgaria,
1 Vasilij Melik, “Češko-slovenski odnosi,” in Enciklopedija Slovenije, ed. Dušan Voglar
(Ljubljana: Založba Mladinska knjiga, 1988), 126.
2 Tatjana Dekleva, “Ljubljanska univerza od ustanovitve do začetka devetdesetih let,”
in 90. let Univerze v Ljubljani: med tradicijo in izzivi časa, ed. Jože Ciperle (Ljubljana:
Univerza v Ljubljani, 2009), 36–39.
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