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1934 – 1942
Secondary grammar school in Lipník, concurrently studied basics of violin playing (R. Kundl), musical theory and harmony (J. Vašíček)
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1942 – 1950
with interruption due to World War II, Brno Conservatory (piano – Zuzana Zámečníková, organ – Josef Černocký, composition – Vilém Petrželka, conducting – Bohumír Liška)
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1950 – 1953
Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, (conducting – Václav Talich, piano – Štefan Németh-Šamorínsky, composition – Ján Cikker)
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1954 – 1957
assistant conductor of Slovak Philharmonic
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1957 – 1968
conductor of Slovak Philharmonic
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1957 – 1959
Academy of Music in Vienna (extraordinary student of H. Swarovský)
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1966
assistant conductor-in-chief of the Leningrad Philharmonic Jevgeny Mravinsky
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1969 – 1975
conductor-in-chief of the Workers’ Philharmonic (today the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in Zlín)
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1973
debut with Czech Philharmonic
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1975 – 1978
leader of the opera and conductor at the State Theatre in Košice
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from 1979
conductor-in-chief of Cairo Symphony and the Iraqi National Philharmonic Orchestra in Baghdad, later conductor at the opera in Istanbul
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1984
return to former Czechoslovakia
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1989 – 2006
teacher at the Conservatory and Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava (pupils: Róbert Stankovský, Mário Košik, Branislav Kostka, Samuel Bill, Oskar Rózsa, Norbert Baxa, Martin Majkút, Juraj Valčuha, Martin Leginus, Miloslav Oswald, Konstantin Ilievsky etc.)