• 1925 – 1933

    grammar school in Nitra (1925-29) and in Bratislava (1929-33)

  • 1933 – 1937

    Music and Drama Academy (composing – Alexander Moyzes), at the same time attended the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University (lectures in musicology, aesthetics and arts history )

  • 1937 – 1939

    Vítězslav Novák Master School at the Conservatory in Prague

  • 1939 – 1945

    head of the Slovak Radio Music Department in Prešov

  • 1945 – 1951

    head of the Czechoslovak Radio Music Department in Košice

  • 1952 – 1954

    director of the Slovak Philharmonic

  • 1955 – 1963

    president of the Slovak Composers Union

  • 1961 – 1984

    taught at the Academy of Music and Drama

  • 1968

    associated professor of composition

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