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1956 – 1961
State Conservatory in Bratislava (piano)
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1961 – 1966
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (musicology under Prof. Jozef Kresánek)
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1966 – 1989
professional worker of the Music Department of the Historical Institute of the Slovak National Museum, today SNM-Music Museum), scientific and documentary work, specialization: musical classicism in Slovakia
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1967 – 1989
head of the RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) in Slovakia, 1972 – 1978 also in the former Czechoslovakia
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1974 – 1979
postgraduate studies at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences under PhDr. Richard Rybarič, CSc.
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1990 – 2011
independent researcher at the Department of Music History of the Institute of Musicology of the SAS
PhDr. Darina Múdra, DrSc., is a Slovak musicologist, music publicist, educator, and editor.
She focused on research of musical life, composer personalities, and the repertoire of musical classicism in Slovakia, preservation and processing of music-historical sources, with an emphasis on capturing preserved musical manuscripts and their stylistic-critical evaluation in European contexts. Among the composers she studied are Anton Zimmermann (1741 – 1781), Heinrich Klein (1756 – 1832), František Pavel Rigler (1748 – 1796), Johannes Matthias Sperger (1750 – 1812), František Xaver Tost (1754 – 1829), and others.
She is the author of numerous scholarly studies in domestic and international journals (e.g., Musikrepertoire, ausübende Musiker und Kopisten der Jesuiten- und Piaristenkirche in Trenčín in den Jahren 1733 – 1859, Joseph Haydn a Slovensko, and others), monographs (W. A. Mozart a Slovensko, Anton Zimmermann (1741 – 1781) und die europäische musikalische Klassik), as well as synthetic works, and source editions in printed and audio formats. She authored synthetic works Dejiny hudobnej kultúry na Slovensku II. – Klasicizmus (1993) and Hudobný klasicizmus na Slovensku v dobových dokumentoch (1996), providing a view on musical life in Slovakia from 1760 to 1830, a thematic catalog Anton Zimmermann (1741 – 1781) Thematisches Werkverzeichnis, and a chapter Classicism in the collective work A History of Slovak Music from the Earliest Times to the Present (ed. Oskár Elschek).
She significantly contributed to the creation of the central music-historical database in Slovakia (Slovenský katalóg hudobnohistorických prameňov). She is one of the founders of this catalog along with Ľubica Ballová and Pavol Polák. She actively collaborated with the RISM central office on codifying cataloging principles of the series A/II RISM. From 1975 to 1989, she was the chief coordinator of information exchange about music sources between Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary. She worked with prominent personalities and institutions of historical musicology and documentation. Slovakia was represented by her in the projects Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Neue Schubert-Ausgabe, Gluck Gesammtausgabe, and within research activities at the Haydn-Institut.
She realized many music editions in various series, as well as audio recordings of works by masters of musical classicism in Slovakia in Slovak and international music publishers and recording companies (F. X. Zomb, J. M. Sperger, F. X. Tost, A. Zimmermann).
She is a member of the International Association of Music Libraries. Alongside her scientific work, she also engaged in teaching activities at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava.