The Academy of Music of the
University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...
() is the largest and only music
conservatoire
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...
in
Slovenia
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. The academy has its origin in the Music School of the Slovene Philharmonic Society (founded 1821, indirectly descended from the Ljubljana Philharmonic Academy of
Johann Berthold von Höffer, 1701),
[Great Soviet encyclopedia: Volume 30 Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov - 1982 "In the 18th and early 19th centuries Ljubljana and Zagreb became major centers of musical life. The Ljubljana Philharmonic Academy, founded in 1701, was one of the oldest such academies in Europe. The city's Philharmonic Society] which became the basis of the Ljubljana Conservatoire in 1919, and then the Ljubljana Academy of Music in 1939. The secondary programme became an independent institution as the
Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory in 1953.
Former and current deans of the academy
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Julij Betetto (1933–1940)
*Anton Trost (1940–?)
*Leon Pfeifer
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Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1946–1947)
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Marijan Lipovšek
Marijan Lipovšek (Ljubljana 26 January 1910 – 25 December 1995) was a Slovenian composer, pianist, and teacher.
A native of Ljubljana, he studied music in that city before heading to Prague in 1932; among his teachers were Pavel Šivic, J ...
*Franjo Schiffer
*Karlo Rupel
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Janko Ravnik
*Mihael Gunzek (1976–1979)
*Danijel Škerl (–1986)
*Marjan Gabrijelčič (1986–1994)
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Dejan Bravničar
Dejan Bravničar (October 1, 1937 in Ljubljana, – March 21, 2018) was a Slovenian violinist.
His father was the composer Matija Bravničar, and his mother was the ballet dancer and teacher Gizela Bravničar.
He studied at the Music School in L ...
(1994–2002)
*Pavel Mihelčič (2002–2009)
*Andrej Grafenauer (2009–2017)
*Marko Vatovec (2017–2025)
*Karolina Šantl Zupan (current)
References
External links
Academy of Music Official website.
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Music schools in Slovenia
Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...