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Figure 1: Photograph of Jan Šlais (reconstruction of the photograph that was published in
Světozor on November 24th, 1920)
cy of more than twenty years, he significantly contributed to the develop-
ment of violin playing in Slovenia. He founded the Ljubljana String Quartet
and trained the most important generation of Slovenian violinists, includ-
ing Karlo ­Rupel (1907–1968), Leon Pfeifer (1907–1986), Albert (Ali) ­Dermelj
(1912–1986), Vida Jeraj-Hribar (1902–2002), Uroš Prevoršek (1915–1998),
Kajetan ­Burger , Fran Stanič (1893–1979), Jelka Stanič (1928–2011), Vinko
Šušteršič, and Francka Ornik Rojc.28 For this reason, today he is considered
the founder of the Ljubljana violin school. At the Ljubljana Conservatory
and later at the Academy of Music he taught violin based on Ševčík’s violin

28 Gracián Černušák, “Šlais, Jan,” in Česko slovenský hudební slovník osob a institucí,
vol. 2, ed. Gracián Černušák, Bohumír Štědroň, and Zdenko Nováček (Prague: Stát-
ní hudební vydavatelství, 1965), 704; Žídek, Čeští houslisté tří století, 133–134; Matija
Bravničar, “Ob dvojnem jubileju prof. Jana Šlaisa,” Jutro, January 8th, 1943, 3; Stanko
Premrl, “Ob dvojnem jubileju profesorja Jana Šlaisa,” Slovenec 71, no. 5a (Janu-
ary 8th, 1943): 2, http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:DOC-1B7NF11Q; Karol
P­ ahor, “Jan Šlais: 80-letnik,” Delo, April 17th, 1973, 8; Dragotin Cvetko, “Ob 75-letni-
ci Jana Šlaisa,” Delo, January 23rd, 1968, 5; Karlo Rupel, “Jubilej zaslužnega glasben-
ega pedagoga,” Delo, January 26th, 1963, 5.

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