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1925
the leaving examination at the Real Secondary Grammar School in Prešov
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1925 – 1928
Conservatory in Prague (organ – Bedřich Wiedermann, composition – Otakar Šín, orchestration – Jaroslav Křička, musical forms – Karel Boleslav Jirák, conducting – Otakar Ostrčil)
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1928 – 1930
Master School of the Prague Conservatory (composition – Vítězslav Novák)
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1928 – 1948
a teacher of theoretical subjects and composition at the Music and Drama Academy (1941 renamed to the State Conservatory) in Bratislava
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1937 – 1948
the head of the Department of Music in the Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava
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1948 – 1951
the Chairman of the Slovak section of the Czechoslovak Association of Composers
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1949 – 1978
a teacher of composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
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1949 – 1953
the Director of the Slovak Musical Fund
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1953
Art Director of SĽUK
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1965 – 1971
the rector of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
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1969 – 1970
Chairman of the Association of Slovak Composers