The Contribution of Dobroslav Orel (1870 – 1942) and of Three State Institutions in Bratislava to Research on the Early History of Music
The Contribution of Dobroslav Orel (1870 – 1942) and of Three State Institutions in Bratislava to Research on the Early History of Music

Summary/Abstract: In the academic year 2021/2022, we commemorate the hundredth anniversary of thefoundation of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava, where the Seminar for Musicology was also established. The latter created a professional base forthe development of Slovak music-historical research, especially for heuristics and forthe preservation of extant music-historical sources from several places of present-daySlovakia. The founder of this Seminar for Musicology, Dobroslav Orel, a Czech theologianand musicologist, also built a music-documentation station at the Faculty of Arts ofComenius University in Bratislava in Slovakia after the model of Czech and Moravianinstitutions. By time, however, the competencies changed and the task to amass, store,catalogue, and scientifically process the extant music-historical sources went in the 1950sto the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and then, in 1965, tothe Music Department of the Institute of History (today Music Museum) of the SlovakNational Museum. The ongoing interdisciplinary and international collaboration improvesthe quality of the scientific activities of music-documentation institutes in Slovakia, whichis facilitated also by their ongoing collaboration with other public institutions.

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