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1957
graduated from the University of Pedagogy in Bratislava
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1957 – 1964
music editor in Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava
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1968 – 1970
director of Slovkoncert
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1969 – 1972
worked in Czechoslovak Television and in Slovart
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1972 – 1983
editor-in-chief of the OPUS musical publishing house
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1983 – 1988
artistic director of SND Opera in Bratislava
He has engaged in publicistic activity as editor of the daily Smena (1964-1968), founding editor of Hudobný život magazine in 1969 and subsequently its editor-in-chief (1988-1998).
He has been head of the authors’ collective and co-author of many publications (Small Encyclopaedia of Music, Small Encyclopaedia of Film, Encyclopaedia of Dramatic Art in Slovakia, Dictionary of Musical Terminology, and 100 Slovak Composers). He has written a number of monographs on famous performers (Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Maria Callasová, David Oistrach).
He was a permanent external collaborator of Musical Broadcasting in Slovak Radio, a pedagogue in VŠMU and a member of the jury in international competitions.