The Contribution of Dobroslav Orel (1870 – 1942) and of Three State Institutions in Bratislava to Research on the Early History of Music

Year, pages: 2022, 253 - 272

In the academic year 2021/2022, we commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava, where the Seminar for Musicology was also established. The latter created a professional base for the development of Slovak music-historical research, especially forheuristics and for the preservation of extant music-historical sources from several places of present-day Slovakia. The founder of this Seminar for Musicology, Dobroslav Orel, a Czech theologian and musicologist, also built a music-documentation station at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava in Slovakia after the model of Czech and Moravian institutions. By time, however, the competencies changed and the task to amass, store, catalogue, and scientifically process the extant music-historical sources went in the 1950s to the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and then, in 1965, to the Music Department of the Institute of History (today Music Museum) of the Slovak National Museum. The ongoing interdisciplinary and international collaboration improves the quality of the scientific activities of music-documentation institutes in Slovakia, which is facilitated also by their ongoing collaboration with other public institutions.

Hulková, M. 2022. The Contribution of Dobroslav Orel (1870 – 1942) and of Three State Institutions in Bratislava to Research on the Early History of Music. In Musicologica Slovaca , vol. 13, no.2, pp. 253-272. 1338-2594. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/musicoslov.2022.2.7

Hulková, M. (2022). The Contribution of Dobroslav Orel (1870 – 1942) and of Three State Institutions in Bratislava to Research on the Early History of Music. Musicologica Slovaca , 13(2), 253-272. 1338-2594. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/musicoslov.2022.2.7

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