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1969 – 1974
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (Music Theory)
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1973 – 1982
Editor at the publishing house Opus, later Head of the Sheet Music and Music Literature Editorial Department
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1983 – 1996
Researcher at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS)
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1997 – 2020
Researcher at the Slavic Studies Cabinet of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (later the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, SAS)
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1998
Awarded the PhD degree; dissertation: Hudba reholí na Slovensku v 16. – 18. storočí (Music of Religious Orders in Slovakia in the 16th–18th Centuries)
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2000 – 2018
Lecturer at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (History of Slovak Music; History of European Music with a focus on Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music)
Mgr. art. Ladislav Kačic, PhD. was a Slovak musicologist, university lecturer, and organizer of musical life. The primary focus of his research was the early history of Slovak music, particularly the Baroque period.
Kačic led several research projects centered on 17th- and 18th-century culture in Slovakia, especially the musical culture of religious communities (Franciscans, Jesuits, Piarists), which he approached from an interdisciplinary perspective (musical, linguistic, and literary).
He authored numerous texts on music published both in Slovakia and abroad (Hungary, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland), and several titles from his extensive bibliography represent key works in the field. He wrote monographs on Slovak musicians, mainly from the 18th century (František Xaver Budinský, Jozef Pantaleon Roškovský, Gaudentius Dettelbach, Juraj Zrunek, Peter Peťko, among others), and contributed entries to the international encyclopedia Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
In addition to his core academic research, he was committed to educating future musicologists as a university lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and he also engaged in scientific popularization. He served as editor and author of critical source editions of musical scores as well as editor of CD recordings presenting valuable, previously unknown works from Slovakia’s musical past.
He organized several international musicological conferences and contributed to international cooperation as a member of the presidium of the Johann-Joseph-Fux Society based in Graz and as a member of the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie. He also served as president of the Slovak Musicological Association.
In recognition of his valuable contribution to Slovak musical culture, he received several prestigious awards.