• 1932

    completed studies at the grammar school in Trenčín

  • 1932 – 1937

    State Conservatory in Prague (composing – Rudolf Karl)

  • 1937 – 1939

    Vítězslav Novák Master School, concurrently with Faculty of Arts of the Charles University (musicology – Zdeněk Nejedlý, Josef Hutter, Otakar Zich and aesthetics – Jan Mukařovský)

  • 1939

    Doctor of Philosophy

  • 1939 – 1940

    teacher at the Slovak Men Teachers' Institute in Prešov

  • 1940 – 1943

    officer of the music department of "Matica slovenská“ in Martin

  • 1944 – 1986

    teacher at the Musicology Department of the Slovak University, later at the Musicology Department of the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava

  • 1953

    Associate Professor

  • 1956 – 1964

    external director of the Musicology Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

  • 1963

    Professor

  • 1970

    degree DrSc.

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