• 1957

    graduated from the University of Pedagogy in Bratislava

  • 1957 – 1964

    music editor in Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava

  • 1968 – 1970

    director of Slovkoncert

  • 1969 – 1972

    worked in Czechoslovak Television and in Slovart

  • 1972 – 1983

    editor-in-chief of the OPUS musical publishing house

  • 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.

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