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konservator iji: profesionalizacija in specializacija glasbenega dela
The second group (The development of post-secondary and higher mu-
sic education between the two world wars in Slovenia) devotes particular at-
tention to institutions providing higher music education in Slovenia in this
period and their role in the development of individual subject fields. It also
examines pedagogical concepts and approaches to teaching and the insti-
tutional changes that saw the Conservatory become the Music Academy.
The third group (Higher music education among the southern Slavs
after 1918) focuses its attention on connections or differences within the
“new” higher education area encompassing the lands of the southern Slavs
and examines teaching methods within individual music disciplines.
The end of 1918 was one of the key turning points in the recent histo-
ry of Europe. The period was marked by the political transformation of Eu-
rope and the emergence of a number of new states. For Slovenes, too, this
period was of historic importance at multiple levels. The break with the old
monarchy was symbolically illustrated by the events surrounding the final
concert of the “German” Philharmonic Society at the Tonhalle (today the
home of the Slovenian Philharmonic) on 25 October 1918. Three days later,
the constituent assembly of the National Council, the body that was to lead
the Slovenes into the new era, took place just across the square in the palace
of the provincial government, today the seat of the University of Ljubljana.
Then, on 29 October 1918, at a vast gathering in Congress Square, the Slo-
venes bade farewell to the disintegrating monarchy to which they had be-
longed for more than 600 years, and, together with the Croats and Serbs,
formed a new State of the South Slavs, which became the kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes on 1 December of the same year.
The end of ties with the Habsburgs and the resulting new geographi-
cal, political, economic, cultural and linguistic environment also had a sig-
nificant impact on the organisation and functioning of Slovene cultural
and academic institutions. The changed conditions after the end of the First
World War accelerated the institutionalisation of cultural and academic in-
terests on a national footing. In the years immediately following the Great
War, Slovenia’s capital gained several long-awaited professional academic
and cultural institutions of key national importance, including a universi-
ty, a national theatre and a conservatory of music. For Slovenes, these rep-
resented a decisive step into the circle of culturally developed nations.
September 2019 marks the centenary of the founding of the Conserva
tory of the Glasbena Matica music society in Ljubljana. The establishment
of the Conservatory, which was nationalised in 1926 and reorganised as the
10
The second group (The development of post-secondary and higher mu-
sic education between the two world wars in Slovenia) devotes particular at-
tention to institutions providing higher music education in Slovenia in this
period and their role in the development of individual subject fields. It also
examines pedagogical concepts and approaches to teaching and the insti-
tutional changes that saw the Conservatory become the Music Academy.
The third group (Higher music education among the southern Slavs
after 1918) focuses its attention on connections or differences within the
“new” higher education area encompassing the lands of the southern Slavs
and examines teaching methods within individual music disciplines.
The end of 1918 was one of the key turning points in the recent histo-
ry of Europe. The period was marked by the political transformation of Eu-
rope and the emergence of a number of new states. For Slovenes, too, this
period was of historic importance at multiple levels. The break with the old
monarchy was symbolically illustrated by the events surrounding the final
concert of the “German” Philharmonic Society at the Tonhalle (today the
home of the Slovenian Philharmonic) on 25 October 1918. Three days later,
the constituent assembly of the National Council, the body that was to lead
the Slovenes into the new era, took place just across the square in the palace
of the provincial government, today the seat of the University of Ljubljana.
Then, on 29 October 1918, at a vast gathering in Congress Square, the Slo-
venes bade farewell to the disintegrating monarchy to which they had be-
longed for more than 600 years, and, together with the Croats and Serbs,
formed a new State of the South Slavs, which became the kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes on 1 December of the same year.
The end of ties with the Habsburgs and the resulting new geographi-
cal, political, economic, cultural and linguistic environment also had a sig-
nificant impact on the organisation and functioning of Slovene cultural
and academic institutions. The changed conditions after the end of the First
World War accelerated the institutionalisation of cultural and academic in-
terests on a national footing. In the years immediately following the Great
War, Slovenia’s capital gained several long-awaited professional academic
and cultural institutions of key national importance, including a universi-
ty, a national theatre and a conservatory of music. For Slovenes, these rep-
resented a decisive step into the circle of culturally developed nations.
September 2019 marks the centenary of the founding of the Conserva
tory of the Glasbena Matica music society in Ljubljana. The establishment
of the Conservatory, which was nationalised in 1926 and reorganised as the
10
