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1932
finished the grammar school in Trnava
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1932 – 1939
teacher and choir master in Pezinok
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1939 – 1949
army bandmaster in Bratislava
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1942 – 1948
Conservatory in Bratislava (organ), at the same time studied musicology at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava and at the Charles University in Prague
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1945
started composing
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1949 – 1954
employed in the Czechoslovak Radio in Košice
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1955 – 1961
creative secretary of the Slovak Composers Union
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since 1961
director of the Conservatory in Košice