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socio-political discourses of the development of music education ...
founded across BiH. Mostar got its first secondary school of music in 1954,
Banja Luka in 1956, Tuzla in 1957 and Zenica in 1977.
The development of secondary music education was an overture in the
emergence and opening of Academy of Music, established in 1955, and the
most credit for it goes to its first rector, ethnomusicologist and composer
Cvjetko Rihtman.26
The main goal of Academy establishment was to satisfy basic needs for
educated musical staff of various profiles and professions, which were obvi-
ously intensified by founding secondary and primary music schools, as well
as by authorities’ efforts to build and culturally profile the entire environ-
ment, people and citizens in socialist BiH. Academy immediately organ-
ized work of seven departments,27 which are credited for the establishment
of professional aspects of BiH musical life.28 So, in November 1955, first ad-
mission exams took place.
Out of 49 applicants, 42 students were admitted. Twenty-five of
them were from Sarajevo, nine from other parts of Bosnia and Her-
zegovina, nine from other Yugoslav Republics, and one was a for-
eign citizen.29
Over years Academy has noted constant progress – during the academ-
ic 1974/1975 year, as the parent institution, Academy opened its region-
al department in Tuzla, upon a request by the Council of Tuzla Munici-
pality, with the department of Theory and Pedagogy.30 Most importantly,
over its long-time work, Academy has accomplished its mission by edu-
cating music professionals who eventually became the backbone of profes-
sional artistic staff at all significant institution, starting from Philharmon-
ic Orchestra, Opera and Ballet to the institutions of primary and secondary
music education.
26 Vinko Krajtmajer and Ivan Čavlović, eds., Spomenica 50 godina Muzičke akademije
u Sarajevu (Sarajevo: Muzička akademija univerziteta u Sarajevu, 2005), 20.
27 I – Department of Composition and Conducting, II – Department of Solo Singing,
III – Piano Department, IV – Department of Stringed Instruments, V – Department
of Wind Instruments, VI – Department of Musicology, VII – Department of Theory
and Teaching. Ibid., 21.
28 The first Academy professors were: Cvjetko Rihtman, Miroslav Špiler, Aleksandar
Segedi, Mladen Pozajić, Božidar Trudić, Matusja Blum, Bruna Špiler and Vlasta De-
belić.
29 Ibid., 20.
30 The Department ceased its operations in the 1982/1983 academic year.
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founded across BiH. Mostar got its first secondary school of music in 1954,
Banja Luka in 1956, Tuzla in 1957 and Zenica in 1977.
The development of secondary music education was an overture in the
emergence and opening of Academy of Music, established in 1955, and the
most credit for it goes to its first rector, ethnomusicologist and composer
Cvjetko Rihtman.26
The main goal of Academy establishment was to satisfy basic needs for
educated musical staff of various profiles and professions, which were obvi-
ously intensified by founding secondary and primary music schools, as well
as by authorities’ efforts to build and culturally profile the entire environ-
ment, people and citizens in socialist BiH. Academy immediately organ-
ized work of seven departments,27 which are credited for the establishment
of professional aspects of BiH musical life.28 So, in November 1955, first ad-
mission exams took place.
Out of 49 applicants, 42 students were admitted. Twenty-five of
them were from Sarajevo, nine from other parts of Bosnia and Her-
zegovina, nine from other Yugoslav Republics, and one was a for-
eign citizen.29
Over years Academy has noted constant progress – during the academ-
ic 1974/1975 year, as the parent institution, Academy opened its region-
al department in Tuzla, upon a request by the Council of Tuzla Munici-
pality, with the department of Theory and Pedagogy.30 Most importantly,
over its long-time work, Academy has accomplished its mission by edu-
cating music professionals who eventually became the backbone of profes-
sional artistic staff at all significant institution, starting from Philharmon-
ic Orchestra, Opera and Ballet to the institutions of primary and secondary
music education.
26 Vinko Krajtmajer and Ivan Čavlović, eds., Spomenica 50 godina Muzičke akademije
u Sarajevu (Sarajevo: Muzička akademija univerziteta u Sarajevu, 2005), 20.
27 I – Department of Composition and Conducting, II – Department of Solo Singing,
III – Piano Department, IV – Department of Stringed Instruments, V – Department
of Wind Instruments, VI – Department of Musicology, VII – Department of Theory
and Teaching. Ibid., 21.
28 The first Academy professors were: Cvjetko Rihtman, Miroslav Špiler, Aleksandar
Segedi, Mladen Pozajić, Božidar Trudić, Matusja Blum, Bruna Špiler and Vlasta De-
belić.
29 Ibid., 20.
30 The Department ceased its operations in the 1982/1983 academic year.
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