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socio-political discourses of the development of music education ...
establishment had to wait for a new time – the time between the two world
wars, when the first professional music institution of educational charac-
ter opened in Sarajevo. It was partly financed by the National Government,
and then by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was the District
School of Music, founded in Sarajevo on 1 October 192019 upon the initia-
tive by a few music lovers and with the help of the then Head of Education
Department of Royal Regional Administration of Drina Banovina Đoko
Kovačević. The social purpose of the newly-founded school was spreading
music education to “as broad layers as possible”20 and allowing music edu-
cation for students to the degree which may enable them to enrol in a high-
er music school, or complete their general cultural education. The purpose
of classes was to
prepare students in musical and technical terms for the artistic per-
formance of classical and modern compositions and to allow them
possible transfer to a higher school of music.21
Besides, a broader social and cultural public soon realized that open-
ing of the District School of Music was a “necessity” which came to life
thanks to the support of National Government for Bosnia and Herzego-
vina.22 The school was indirectly managed by Board of Trustees (e.g. a cir-
cle of friends of music) of the District School of Music, composed of seven
to twelve members, who were entitled to elect the chairperson, vice-chair-
person, secretary, treasurer and Working Board. Besides the Board Chair-
person, an extremely important role was also played by the school Prin-
cipal, and – interestingly – the role of the first principal in the school’s
history was entrusted to the Slovene Josip Hladek-Bohinjski – who be-
came well-known in the broader BiH public as an excelling military
bandmaster as early as in the period of Austro-Hungarian administra-
tion.23 Bohinjski held the office for a short time, or more precisely until
19 Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ZVS, 1921, 243, 92/17/11, Statute of Distri-
ct School of Music in Sarajevo; Fatima Hadžić, “Osnivanje i djelatnost Oblasne
muzičke škole u Sarajevu,” Časopis za muzičku kulturu Muzika 1 (2018): 7. Fatima
Hadžić, Muzičke institucije u Sarajevu (1819–1941): Oblasna muzička škola i Sarajev
ska filharmonija (Sarajevo: Muzička akademija, Institut za muzikologiju, 2018).
20 Spomenica (drugi izvještaj) Oblasne muzičke škole u Sarajevu (Sarajevo: Državna
štamparija, 1930), 5.
21 Ibid., 30.
22 B., “Oblasna muzička škola,” Narodno jedinstvo (1920): 3.
23 Details about Josip Hladek-Bohinjski in Sarajevo see in: Lana Paćuka, “Aspects
of Slovenian musicians’ activity in the musical life of Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo
377
establishment had to wait for a new time – the time between the two world
wars, when the first professional music institution of educational charac-
ter opened in Sarajevo. It was partly financed by the National Government,
and then by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was the District
School of Music, founded in Sarajevo on 1 October 192019 upon the initia-
tive by a few music lovers and with the help of the then Head of Education
Department of Royal Regional Administration of Drina Banovina Đoko
Kovačević. The social purpose of the newly-founded school was spreading
music education to “as broad layers as possible”20 and allowing music edu-
cation for students to the degree which may enable them to enrol in a high-
er music school, or complete their general cultural education. The purpose
of classes was to
prepare students in musical and technical terms for the artistic per-
formance of classical and modern compositions and to allow them
possible transfer to a higher school of music.21
Besides, a broader social and cultural public soon realized that open-
ing of the District School of Music was a “necessity” which came to life
thanks to the support of National Government for Bosnia and Herzego-
vina.22 The school was indirectly managed by Board of Trustees (e.g. a cir-
cle of friends of music) of the District School of Music, composed of seven
to twelve members, who were entitled to elect the chairperson, vice-chair-
person, secretary, treasurer and Working Board. Besides the Board Chair-
person, an extremely important role was also played by the school Prin-
cipal, and – interestingly – the role of the first principal in the school’s
history was entrusted to the Slovene Josip Hladek-Bohinjski – who be-
came well-known in the broader BiH public as an excelling military
bandmaster as early as in the period of Austro-Hungarian administra-
tion.23 Bohinjski held the office for a short time, or more precisely until
19 Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ZVS, 1921, 243, 92/17/11, Statute of Distri-
ct School of Music in Sarajevo; Fatima Hadžić, “Osnivanje i djelatnost Oblasne
muzičke škole u Sarajevu,” Časopis za muzičku kulturu Muzika 1 (2018): 7. Fatima
Hadžić, Muzičke institucije u Sarajevu (1819–1941): Oblasna muzička škola i Sarajev
ska filharmonija (Sarajevo: Muzička akademija, Institut za muzikologiju, 2018).
20 Spomenica (drugi izvještaj) Oblasne muzičke škole u Sarajevu (Sarajevo: Državna
štamparija, 1930), 5.
21 Ibid., 30.
22 B., “Oblasna muzička škola,” Narodno jedinstvo (1920): 3.
23 Details about Josip Hladek-Bohinjski in Sarajevo see in: Lana Paćuka, “Aspects
of Slovenian musicians’ activity in the musical life of Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo
377
