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1925 – 1933
grammar school in Nitra (1925-29) and in Bratislava (1929-33)
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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 )
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1937 – 1939
Vítězslav Novák Master School at the Conservatory in Prague
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1939 – 1945
head of the Slovak Radio Music Department in Prešov
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1945 – 1951
head of the Czechoslovak Radio Music Department in Košice
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1952 – 1954
director of the Slovak Philharmonic
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1955 – 1963
president of the Slovak Composers Union
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1961 – 1984
taught at the Academy of Music and Drama
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1968
associated professor of composition