Ciril Cvetko (8 January 1920 – 18 January 1999) was a Slovene

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and conductor, brother of the musicologist

Dragotin Cvetko Dragotin Cvetko (19 September 1911 – 2 September 1993) was a Slovenian composer and musicologist.Bujić, Bojan. 1980. "Cvetko, Dragotin." In Stanley Sadie (ed.), ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', vol. 5 (pp. 110–111). Lond ...

. Cvetko was born in

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near

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in northeastern

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in 1920. He studied music at the

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and graduated in 1948. He also completed graduate studies in

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and

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. He worked at

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, the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Company, and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. He died in Ljubljana in 1999. In 1963 he won the

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for his book ''Opera in njeni mojstri'' (The Opera and Its Masters).

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