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1962 – 1967
Studied musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (under Professor Jozef Kresánek, founder of modern Slovak musicology)
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1974 – 1989
Lecturer at the Department of Aesthetics and Art Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
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1989 – 2015
Lecturer at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, 1981 PhDr. (rigorous thesis Melodicko-harmonická štruktúra sláčikových kvartet Bélu Bartóka vo svetle vplyvu slovenského folklóru – Melodic and Harmonic Structure of Béla Bartók’s String Quartets in Light of the Influence of Slovak Folklore), 1988 CSc. (doctoral dissertation Štýlotvorné formovanie mladej skladateľskej generácie na Slovensku v 60. rokoch – Stylistic Formation of the Young Generation of Composers in Slovakia in the 1960s), 1996 Associate Professor (habilitation thesis Historicko-teoretické predpoklady vývoja slovenskej hudby po roku 1945 – Historical and Theoretical Preconditions for the Development of Slovak Music after 1945), 2001 Full Professor (inaugural lecture on Hudobná avantgarda na Slovensku – The Musical Avant-Garde in Slovakia)
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2001 – 2007
Head of the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
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2015 – 2020
External lecturer and doctoral supervisor
Prof. PhDr. Ľubomír Chalupka, PhD. was a Slovak musicologist, editor, organizer, and university professor. He was one of the most prominent figures of Slovak musicology and 20th-century music history. He was a student of the musicological school at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, under Professor Jozef Kresánek, the founder of modern Slovak musicology.
Since 1973, he taught at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University. From 2001, he held the position of full university professor, and after 2015, he worked as an external lecturer and doctoral advisor. He also gave guest lectures at various university departments both in Slovakia (Ružomberok, Nitra, Banská Bystrica) and abroad (Brno, Olomouc, Prague, Kraków, Vienna). For a time, he was also employed part-time at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and at the University Computing Centre of Comenius University.
In addition to his teaching activities, Ľubomír Chalupka was consistently active in scientific research. He focused on studying, analyzing, and reflecting on the modern history of Slovak music in the 20th century, issues of music theory, and the methodology of musicology. He gave lectures at many musicological conferences and served on the editorial boards of various scholarly journals. Until 1972, he also worked as an editor of the journal Slovenská hudba.
His published output exceeds 550 entries. It includes scholarly critiques, reviews, popular articles, liner notes for LPs and CDs, concert bulletin texts, scientific studies, and monographic publications. The peak of his scholarly focus is represented by three book-length monographs: Slovenská hudobná avantgarda (2011, The Slovak Musical Avant-Garde), Cestami k tvorivej profesionalite (2015, Pathways to Creative Professionalism), Generačné a štýlové konfrontácie (2018, Generational and Stylistic Confrontations). He also worked as an editor on various scholarly publications, journals, and proceedings from musicological conferences.
He was a member of several professional scientific organizations both in Slovakia and abroad. He collaborated with the Slovak Musicological Association in organizing international musicological conferences within the framework of the Bratislava Music Festival. He was a member of academic councils at universities in Bratislava, Nitra, and at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. He was also a member of the international Arbeitkreis für systematische Musikwissenschaft based in Hamburg.
Prof. Chalupka was also known for his lay ecclesiastical involvement – from 2010 to 2019, he served as a church organist in the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Bratislava – Petržalka and Rusovce, and as a member of the Laudate choir.
For his pedagogical and scientific work, he received several awards.