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socio-political discourses of the development of music education ...
clear that Academy was the necessary final stage in the professional educa-
tion of musicians – not least because it was accessible to students who could
not afford the expensive music studies abroad.
As described by Hajek, the curriculum of the Academy was written
with an aim to offer its students the maximum of knowledge and skills nec-
essary to produce comprehensively educated musicians; hence the curricu-
lum prescribed that all students of the academy should study music-theo-
retical subjects, as well as piano. The piano department had three categories
of students: (1) those who studied piano as their major; (2) those who stud-
ied the teachers’ department with piano as their secondary subject; (3) stu-
dents of all other departments who studied complementary piano. Hajek
also testified that the activities of the Secondary music school were tight-
ly intertwined with those of the Academy: the majority of professors of the
Academy also taught at the Secondary school, thus ensuring the continuity
of teaching and a stimulative environment for the youth.33
Table 1: The first students of the piano department
Name of the student Place of birth Professor at the Academy
Batugovska Marija Arhangelsk (Russia) Emil Hajek
Vejnštejn Olga Botoșani (Romania) Ciril Ličar
Ilić Milica Paris (France) Emil Hajek
Dušanić Olga Budapest (Austria–Hungary) Jelica Krstić (Popović)
Koen Luna Beograd Emil Hajek
Radivojević Milica Pančevo (Dunavska banovina) Emil Hajek
Stojanović Milica Osijek (Savska banovina) Emil Hajek
Ćorović Ljiljana Dubrovnik (Zetska banovina) Ciril Ličar
Škarka Vlastimir Beograd Emil Hajek
The first generation of students enrolled at the Music Academy in 1937
consisted of 39 students; among them, 9 students passed the entrance exam
to study piano. According to the 1962 Annual of the Music Academy, out
of those 39, a total of 20 students graduated, including 6 pianists: Milica
Stojanović (Marjanović), Milica Radivojević, Olga (Dušanić) Popov, Olga
Vejnštajn, Vlastimir Škarka and Luna Koen (Puđa). Among them only Mil-
ica Stojanović managed to graduate before the outbreak of war, while the
remaining five prolonged their studies. Table 1 contains the names of the
first generation of piano students, their places of birth and the names of pi-
33 Ibid., 45–46.
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clear that Academy was the necessary final stage in the professional educa-
tion of musicians – not least because it was accessible to students who could
not afford the expensive music studies abroad.
As described by Hajek, the curriculum of the Academy was written
with an aim to offer its students the maximum of knowledge and skills nec-
essary to produce comprehensively educated musicians; hence the curricu-
lum prescribed that all students of the academy should study music-theo-
retical subjects, as well as piano. The piano department had three categories
of students: (1) those who studied piano as their major; (2) those who stud-
ied the teachers’ department with piano as their secondary subject; (3) stu-
dents of all other departments who studied complementary piano. Hajek
also testified that the activities of the Secondary music school were tight-
ly intertwined with those of the Academy: the majority of professors of the
Academy also taught at the Secondary school, thus ensuring the continuity
of teaching and a stimulative environment for the youth.33
Table 1: The first students of the piano department
Name of the student Place of birth Professor at the Academy
Batugovska Marija Arhangelsk (Russia) Emil Hajek
Vejnštejn Olga Botoșani (Romania) Ciril Ličar
Ilić Milica Paris (France) Emil Hajek
Dušanić Olga Budapest (Austria–Hungary) Jelica Krstić (Popović)
Koen Luna Beograd Emil Hajek
Radivojević Milica Pančevo (Dunavska banovina) Emil Hajek
Stojanović Milica Osijek (Savska banovina) Emil Hajek
Ćorović Ljiljana Dubrovnik (Zetska banovina) Ciril Ličar
Škarka Vlastimir Beograd Emil Hajek
The first generation of students enrolled at the Music Academy in 1937
consisted of 39 students; among them, 9 students passed the entrance exam
to study piano. According to the 1962 Annual of the Music Academy, out
of those 39, a total of 20 students graduated, including 6 pianists: Milica
Stojanović (Marjanović), Milica Radivojević, Olga (Dušanić) Popov, Olga
Vejnštajn, Vlastimir Škarka and Luna Koen (Puđa). Among them only Mil-
ica Stojanović managed to graduate before the outbreak of war, while the
remaining five prolonged their studies. Table 1 contains the names of the
first generation of piano students, their places of birth and the names of pi-
33 Ibid., 45–46.
393
