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1932
completed studies at the grammar school in Trenčín
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1932 – 1937
State Conservatory in Prague (composing – Rudolf Karl)
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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)
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1939
Doctor of Philosophy
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1939 – 1940
teacher at the Slovak Men Teachers' Institute in Prešov
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1940 – 1943
officer of the music department of "Matica slovenská“ in Martin
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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
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1953
Associate Professor
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1956 – 1964
external director of the Musicology Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
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1963
Professor
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1970
degree DrSc.