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konservator iji: profesionalizacija in specializacija glasbenega dela
and violin students. In the 1919/20 academic year, a total of more than
1,000 students enrolled at the Glasbena Matica school, which henceforth
consisted of a four-year preliminary or lower level, an intermediate lev-
el and a three-year higher level.27 Students wishing to study music on an
amateur basis enrolled at the music school of the Glasbena Matica, while
those enrolling at the Conservatory for the most part wished to pursue
music professionally.
Initial enrolment at all three levels thus immediately exceeded even
the most optimistic predictions, but less attention was paid to the provi-
sion of the necessary financial resources for the functioning of the Con-
servatory. To begin with, the Glasbena Matica received practically no help
from the state to sustain the existence of the Conservatory. The only sup-
port came from the Provincial Government for Slovenia, although the sum
of 20,000 krona provided by the latter28 was largely symbolic.
Efforts to settle the status of the Conservatory on a more permanent
footing yielded more significant results on 5 January 1920, when the Edu-
cation and Religious Worship Commission, at that time the principal state
body in the field of culture, granted the Conservatory the right to issue
state-approved certificates.29 As a result, the Glasbena Matica became the
de facto principal organiser of music education, not only in Ljubljana but in
the whole of Slovenia.
The growing number of students and teachers, combined with the ex-
panding curriculum, naturally led to an increase in the Conservatory’s op-
erating costs. The undeniable importance of the subsequent nationalisation
for the Conservatory’s functioning and, indeed, survival is shown by the
figures for 1921. At that time the institution already had almost 50 teachers
on its payroll – full-time professors, full-time and part-time teachers, hon-
orary professors and supply teachers, most of whom taught at all three lev-
els, although a few taught at only one level. The Conservatory’s annual op-
erating costs already exceeded one million krona, with just under 700,000
krona covered by fees. Until nationalisation, the Conservatory’s budget
thus showed a shortfall of around 300,000 krona, which had to be made
27 Cigoj Krstulović, Zgodovina, spomin, dediščina, 167.
28 Cvetko Budkovič, Razvoj glasbenega šolstva na Slovenskem II: od nastanka konser-
vatorija do Akademije za glasbo 1919–1946 (Ljubljana: Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske
fakultete, 1995): 22.
29 “Podelitev pravice javnosti,” Uradni list deželne vlade za Slovenijo II, no. 7 (16 January
1920): 30, https://www.sistory.si/cdn/publikacije/1-1000/210/Uradni_list_SHS_1920.
pdf.
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and violin students. In the 1919/20 academic year, a total of more than
1,000 students enrolled at the Glasbena Matica school, which henceforth
consisted of a four-year preliminary or lower level, an intermediate lev-
el and a three-year higher level.27 Students wishing to study music on an
amateur basis enrolled at the music school of the Glasbena Matica, while
those enrolling at the Conservatory for the most part wished to pursue
music professionally.
Initial enrolment at all three levels thus immediately exceeded even
the most optimistic predictions, but less attention was paid to the provi-
sion of the necessary financial resources for the functioning of the Con-
servatory. To begin with, the Glasbena Matica received practically no help
from the state to sustain the existence of the Conservatory. The only sup-
port came from the Provincial Government for Slovenia, although the sum
of 20,000 krona provided by the latter28 was largely symbolic.
Efforts to settle the status of the Conservatory on a more permanent
footing yielded more significant results on 5 January 1920, when the Edu-
cation and Religious Worship Commission, at that time the principal state
body in the field of culture, granted the Conservatory the right to issue
state-approved certificates.29 As a result, the Glasbena Matica became the
de facto principal organiser of music education, not only in Ljubljana but in
the whole of Slovenia.
The growing number of students and teachers, combined with the ex-
panding curriculum, naturally led to an increase in the Conservatory’s op-
erating costs. The undeniable importance of the subsequent nationalisation
for the Conservatory’s functioning and, indeed, survival is shown by the
figures for 1921. At that time the institution already had almost 50 teachers
on its payroll – full-time professors, full-time and part-time teachers, hon-
orary professors and supply teachers, most of whom taught at all three lev-
els, although a few taught at only one level. The Conservatory’s annual op-
erating costs already exceeded one million krona, with just under 700,000
krona covered by fees. Until nationalisation, the Conservatory’s budget
thus showed a shortfall of around 300,000 krona, which had to be made
27 Cigoj Krstulović, Zgodovina, spomin, dediščina, 167.
28 Cvetko Budkovič, Razvoj glasbenega šolstva na Slovenskem II: od nastanka konser-
vatorija do Akademije za glasbo 1919–1946 (Ljubljana: Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske
fakultete, 1995): 22.
29 “Podelitev pravice javnosti,” Uradni list deželne vlade za Slovenijo II, no. 7 (16 January
1920): 30, https://www.sistory.si/cdn/publikacije/1-1000/210/Uradni_list_SHS_1920.
pdf.
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