TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF MUSIC IN THE SLOVENIAN PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM (1816–2016)

Abstract

Music education has had a long and rich tradition in Slovenia. 200-years of music education in the public system bring to mind more than 200-years development of   various musical schools and institutions in terms of both, the numerous creative individual musicians i.e. the composers, as well as performances, i.e. the singers, the teachers, the instrumentalists, the scientists and their views. Were it not for looking back and encompassing the views of the past, and the vision of the future, today’s condition and development would not be as rich. Today’s results, in the European frame, mean 14,8 % of elementary school boys and girls in Slovene music schools (Europe over 5 %) or achievements which today show the excellent Slovenian music artists, i.e. the clarinetist Mate Bekavac, the flutist Irena Grafenauer, the mezzo-soprano Marjana Lipovšek, the violinist Igor Ozim, the trombonist Branimir Slokar, the Slovenian Octet, the pianist Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak, the tenor Janez Lotrič, two Slovenians in the famous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and the third who is a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker.