• 1925

    the leaving examination at the Real Secondary Grammar School in Prešov

  • 1925 – 1928

    Conservatory in Prague (organ – Bedřich Wiedermann, composition – Otakar Šín, orchestration – Jaroslav Křička, musical forms – Karel Boleslav Jirák, conducting – Otakar Ostrčil)

  • 1928 – 1930

    Master School of the Prague Conservatory (composition – Vítězslav Novák)

  • 1928 – 1948

    a teacher of theoretical subjects and composition at the Music and Drama Academy (1941 renamed to the State Conservatory) in Bratislava

  • 1937 – 1948

    the head of the Department of Music in the Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava

  • 1948 – 1951

    the Chairman of the Slovak section of the Czechoslovak Association of Composers

  • 1949 – 1978

    a teacher of composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava

  • 1949 – 1953

    the Director of the Slovak Musical Fund

  • 1953

    Art Director of SĽUK

  • 1965 – 1971

    the rector of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava

  • 1969 – 1970

    Chairman of the Association of Slovak Composers

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